Once 'criminal tribes' might finally get integrated | ummid.com
The Criminal Tribes Act, 1871, included petty traders, story-tellers, acrobats, gymnasts, puppeteers, tightrope walkers, those who entertained public with performing animals such as bears, monkeys, snakes, owls, birds, pastoral groups and hunting, gathering and shifting cultivator communities within forests that traded in forest produce and animals.