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In [[Indian English]], a '''history-sheeter''' (sometimes referred to as a rowdy-sheeter<ref>{{Cite web|title=Definition of History-Sheeter by Cambridge Dictionary|url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rowdy-sheeter}}</ref> ) is a person with a long criminal record.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Definition of History-Sheeter by Oxford Dictionary|url=https://www.lexico.com/definition/history-sheeter|access-date=2020-07-10|website=Lexico Dictionaries|quote=A person with a criminal record.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Tom Dalzell|author2=Terry Victor|title=The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abYBCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT9722|year=2015|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-37251-6|page=9722}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Christiane Dalton-Puffer|author2=Nikolaus Ritt|title=Words: Structure, Meaning, Function: A Festschrift for Dieter Kastovsky|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P26pFnGEHhUC&pg=PA35|year=2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-080916-9|page=35}}</ref> Known as a [[career criminal]] outside of South Asia, the term is found in newspapers of South Asian countries such as India<ref name="Nair2004">{{cite book|author=K. Balasankaran Nair|title=Law of Contempt of Court in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gujNYPcNETMC|year=2004|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0359-7|pages=100 footnote 92, 103}}</ref> and Pakistan.<ref>''World Englishes: Critical Concepts in Linguistics'', Volume 2 by Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru, p. 247 [https://books.google.com/books?id=9yT33ebcOBkC&pg=PA247&dq=history-sheeter&hl=en&sa=X&ei=M8GDT9LZMcrorQehrbjqBg&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=history-sheeter&f=false gbook]<br />
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According to Anastasia Piliavsky, the concept of "history sheeter" has origins in the colonial era rule and its police surveillance codes.<ref name="Gellner2013"/><ref>{{cite book|title=All India Reporter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJU2AAAAIAAJ|year=1946|publisher=D.V. Chitaley|page=147}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Uttar Pradesh (India). Legislature. Legislative Council|title=Proceedings: official report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-ckAQAAIAAJ|year=1934|publisher=Adhīkshaka|page=318}}</ref> The legal codes allowed preemptive penalties against those listed as a "history sheeter", and these codes were copied into the post-independent Indian Penal Code Sections 109 and 110. The Indian states such as [[Rajasthan]] list a person as a "history sheeter" when "his or her criminal record reaches or exceeds thirty offenses," states Piliavsky.<ref name="Gellner2013">{{cite book|author=Anastasia Piliavsky|editor=David N. Gellner|title=Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5raAgAAQBAJ |year=2013|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-7730-6|pages=45 note 26}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Ishtehari]]<br />
* [[Habitual offender]]<br />
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