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This lecture discusses the 'idea of crime' as it was understood by the colonial establishment and also as understood by the present government. In 1871, Lord Mayo introduced the bill leading to the infamous Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) which led to the segregation of a certain set of professions and lifestyles from the rest of society. The segregation was given a concrete form with the creation of penal settlements by the colonial government. The communities brought under the provisions of the CTA are now known as Denotified and Nomadic Tribes, not to be mistaken with adivasis. Mostly nomadic in habit, these tribes have suffered the worst humiliation in the history of modern India. In recent decades, the idea of crime has also been associated with non-state actors in order to deal with terrorism. However, the provisions of laws made towards this objective, such as the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967, are being used speciously to restrain social activists and thinkers. This has raised many questions in recent years. The theme of this lecture outlines the gap between the idea of crime and the idea of justice that needs to be bridged in the interests of deepening democracy in India.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Indigeneity and national celebrations in Latin America: performative practices and identity politics -- 2 Performance in native North America: music and dance -- 3 Indigenous performing arts in Southeast Asia -- 4 Performance in Australia, Aotearoa and the Pacific -- 5 "Theory Coming Through Story": indigenous knowledges and Western academia -- 6 Performance among adivasis and nomads in India -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Plates -- Introduction -- 1. The Hyena Wears Darkness: Stories as Teaching Tools -- 2. Reading Khoekhoe and Khasi Folktales Juxtapositionally: Political Insights and Social Values in Two Traditional Narratives -- 3. 'Kissa-Heer': A Gem of Oral Tradition -- 4. Magical Rhythms: Psycho-Sexual and Religious Significance of Tribal Dance -- 5. Foregrounding the Margin: Traditional Value Systems of Lepchas of India and Igbos of Nigeria -- 6. Charting the Multiple Scripts of Santali: Notes Towards a Visual History of Adivasi Languages and Literatures -- 7. Translating Identity as Lexicon: P. O. Bodding and A Santal Dictionary -- 8. Marginalized Music: A Case Study from Western Orissa/India -- 9. Storying Sovereignty and 'Sustainable Self-Determination': Alexis Wright's Carpentaria and Warwick Thornton's -- 10. The Socio-Political Imperative of Nigerian Festivals -- 11. Ogoni Dances, Masquerades and Worldview -- 12. 'Black Indian' Women and Blood Rules: Hyphenated Hybridities on the Margins of America -- 13. Cultural Celebrations of Life: Rituals of a Hill Tribe -- 14. The /Xam Narratives of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection: Exploring 19th-Century San Mythology -- 15. Staging the Indian Reserve: Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters -- 16. Indigenous Knowledge and Global Translation: Reconstruction of Australia through Aboriginal Imagination in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria -- 17. Contesting the Curative Space: Politics of Healing in the Narratives of Nyole Ethno-Medical Practitioners -- 18. Conquering Adversity through Art: An Evaluation of Moranic Performances by the Maasai People of Kenya -- 19. Women and Indigenous Resistance in Tess Onwueme's Tell It To Women and What Mama Said -- 20. Tracing Post-Colonial Questions in Ancient Thought -- About the Editors

1. Symbolic power, nation-state and indigenous language : a sociological analysis of tribes in central India / Gomati Bodra Hembrom -- 2. Text, subtext and context of Indian culture in the developmental paradigm of globalization / Keya Majumdar -- 3. Adivasi art : the convergence of the intangible and the tangible / Lidia Guzy -- 4. Aesthetics of representation : media and Canadian Aboriginal resistance / Shaily Sharma -- 5. The forgotten tribe : the Kuravars of Tamil Nadu / A. Maria Mercy Amutha and G. Christopher -- 6. Tesu and Jhenjhi : a festival celebrating cultural life / Sonia S. Kushwah and A. S. Kushwah -- 7. Articulating tribal culture : the oral tradition of Lambadas / Banoth Deepa Jyothi -- 8. Micro and macro intergenerational oral communication in the Zion Christian Church / Lesibana J. Rafapa -- 9. Sacred places as traditional heritage for the Vhavenda indigenous community of Limpopo Province, South Africa / Nelson Mbulaheni Musehane -- 10. Translating power, gender and caste : negotiating identity, memory and history: a study of Bama's Sangati / Nishat Haider -- 11. Historiography or imagination? The documentation of traditional Luo cultural memory in Kenyan fiction / Alex N. Wanjala -- 12. Tackling endangered languages in the midst of diversity / Lachman Mulchand Khubchandani -- 13. Language shift among the Waddar speakers / Digambar Maruti Ghodke -- 14. Towards a revitalization of Urhobo : an endangered language of Delta State, Nigeria / Rose Oro Aziza -- 15. Itsekiri : threatened and endangered / Tony E. Afejuku and Alero Uwawah -- 16 Kikuyu phonology and orthography : any hope for continuity of indigenous languages? / P. I Iribemwangi -- 17. Endangered! The Igbo language dilemma in Nigeria / Chinenye Nwabueze and Ezinwanne Okoli -- 18. Aspects of discourse structure : a case of particles / Maloba Wekesa -- 19. Mobile telephone communication and the Akan language / Perpetual Crentsil.

1. Being 'Primitive' in a modern world : the Andaman Islanders / Vishvajit Pandya -- 2. Co-existence of multiple timeframes : narratives of myths and cosmogony in India / Vibha S. Chauhan -- 3. Pimatisiwin indigenous knowledge systems, north and south / Priscilla Settee -- 4. Metaphors of fertility, phallic anxieties and expiation of grief in the Babukusu funeral oratory / Chris J.C. Wasike -- 5. The (re-)imag(in)ing of the Oba of Benin in Nigerian dramatic literature and its implications in indigenous studies / Israel Meriomame Wekpe and Alero Uwawah -- 6. 'Kasapa' : mobile telephony and changing healthcare communication in Ghana / Perpetual Crentsil -- 7. Discourse of resistance and protest in Meitei Folklore / Leisangthem Gitarani Devi -- 8. Sovereign ontologies in Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand : indigenous responses to asylum seekers, refugees and overstayers / Emma Cox -- 9. Indigenous worldviews and environmental footprints : the case of Prometheus vs Hermes / A.O. Balcomb -- 10. Folk heritage and classical lore : the grand narratives from the Aegean Archipelago and Derek Walcott's Caribbean Creole readings / Eckhard Breitinger -- 11. Conceptualizing space and indigenous knowledge : articulations and considerations for natural resource management in the Himalayas / Seema M. Parihar. [et al.] -- 12. Breaking the power of patriarchy : Unity Dow's novel The screaming of the innocent / Geoffrey V. Davis -- 13. The national, the Indian, and empowering performance : festive practices in the highlands (Bolivia) / Ximena Cordova -- 14. Contemporary Maori painting : pictorial representation of land and landscape / Dieter Riemenschneider -- 15. Art, landscape, and identity in She plays with the darkness, The Madonna of Excelsior and Cion / Gail Fincham -- 16. Indigenous languages in the post-colonial era / Zahid Akter -- 17. The struggle for survival : globalization and its impact on tribal women in Kerala / Lata Marina Varghese -- 18. Eco-fraternity of Kurum(b)a tribes in Wayanad, Kerala / Nelson P. Abraham.