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do certain things and not others. Judged by these standards
the existence of these tribes in the Province is yet an imper-
fectly solved problem of criminology. Most of them are
not residents of the Central Provinces and Berar. The
resident Banjaras, Berias, Dakhani Kanjars and Sanchaloo
Waddars have mostly settled down and adopted honest!
methods of earning a livelihood, with relapses into crime
which are generally rare, though much more freouent
among the Sanchaloo Waddars. The Mang Garodis alone
constitute a serious problem in the Central Provinces,
as they are large in numbers and still cleave to a nomadic
life in which work has no part. Repeated convictions
for offences against the law may curtail their predatory
activities, but do not help them towards a new existence
in which the life of the beggar and the thief will no longer
have any attraction for them. The crime committed by
them is rarely of a serious nature, but, from the social
point of view, the time is at hand when the difficult and
extensive task of settling them can no longer be delayed.
I hope the material brought together in this compila-
tion will encourage a better understanding of this fascinating
problem in modern Indian criminology and sociology.
PACHMARHI :
1935.
do certain things and not others. Judged by these standards
the existence of these tribes in the Province is yet an imper-
fectly solved problem of criminology. Most of them are
not residents of the Central Provinces and Berar. The
resident Banjaras, Berias, Dakhani Kanjars and Sanchaloo
Waddars have mostly settled down and adopted honest!
methods of earning a livelihood, with relapses into crime
which are generally rare, though much more freouent
among the Sanchaloo Waddars. The Mang Garodis alone
constitute a serious problem in the Central Provinces,
as they are large in numbers and still cleave to a nomadic
life in which work has no part. Repeated convictions
for offences against the law may curtail their predatory
activities, but do not help them towards a new existence
in which the life of the beggar and the thief will no longer
have any attraction for them. The crime committed by
them is rarely of a serious nature, but, from the social
point of view, the time is at hand when the difficult and
extensive task of settling them can no longer be delayed.
I hope the material brought together in this compila-
tion will encourage a better understanding of this fascinating
problem in modern Indian criminology and sociology.
PACHMARHI :
1935.