Few might be aware that back in 1871, the colonial British Government in India had introduced an act — Criminal Tribes Act where around two hundred (mostly Nomadic Tribes) were notified as criminal or born criminals. After Independence in 1952, the Act was repealed and replaced with the Habitual Offenders’ Act. The tribes then turned from being criminal to “The population of these tribes comprise over 11 per cent of the entire country and their plight continues to be terrible,” says Mayank Sinha, coordinator with National Alliance Group for Denotified and Nomadic Tribe (NAG – DNT), that is organising the Nomad Movie festival from today at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

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