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Dipesh Chakrabarty

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Subaltern Studies Editorial Collective

ExecutiveEditors Shahid Amin Gautam Bhadra

ParthaChatterjee Gyanendra Pandey

Members David Arnold Dipesh Chakrabarty David Hardiman Sudipta ICUMENT/ APPARATUS/PROCESS The rowdy-sheet is a record the police stations in the cities and towns of Andhra Pradesh (A..P.) keep of a rowdy. The tet111 'rowdy-sheet' 54M!DIS to be specific to the police procedures of A.P., probably also Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, but the same function would doubtless be performedby a similar record of some other name in other places. The A.P. Police Standing Order No 742, dated 8 April 1971, defines the rowdy and prescribes that a rowdy-sheet may be opened for each rowdy under .the ordei of a Superintendent of Police or a sub-divisional officer. 5 The closure of a rowdy-sheet must also be under the order of a gazetted officer in the police 5 Cited in Padala Rama Reddi, TM And/ml PnuleshPoliceCDde(in 2 oolsJ, r,ol, 1 (PanchAyat Publications, Hyderabad , 1991),pp. 556-7. SeeAppendix 1 for the format of the rowdy-sheet

'ROWDY-SHEElERS': SUBALTERNITYAND POUTICS

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force , as also its retention beyond a period of two yean. The characteristics of a rowdy are defined in this document as follows: a.

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a habit of rommitting. attempting to rommit, aiding or abetting offences involving breach of peace. persons who have been bound over under sections 106, l