▲ 6 ▼ 155 years ago today, in British India the first "Criminal Tribes Act" was enacted. It criminalized entire communities by designating them and their members as habitual criminals. (en.wikipedia.org) submitted 4 weeks ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/anniversaries@lemmy.ml 1 comment fedilink hide all child comments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomadic_tribes_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denotified_Tribes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduled_Castes_and_Scheduled_Tribes
[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago I could see that happening in the states today. permalink fedilink source