Ex - criminal tribes of India

The present work deals with criminal tribes as one of the ethnic groups in the Indian sub-continent. There are six million people of this kind distri buted in different regions with local names of their own. They take to criminal activity as a profession and believe that they are ordained by tradition to follow this vocation.. study focuses on the Yerukulas, The one of the important criminal tribes of Andhra Pradesh.

The author is concerned especially with the changes which have been recently brought about by governmental legislation as well as social changes in the behaviour pattern of this tribe.

In the course of the study the reader finds an analysis of the criminal activities of the criminal tribes and their modus operandi. The changing criminal behaviour of these tribes before and after Independence is adequately highlighted.

More recently the criminal tribes seem to be acquiring the characteris tics of other caste groups. The author explains this process of transformation and also examines how the system plays its role in caste the village structure in eeping the criminal tribes as they are. The book is useful to the academic community as well as to all those interested in the problems involved in rehabilitating the criminal tribes.