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Mental Justice of the NT-DNTs in Context of the Pandemic Mental justice of Nomadic and Denotified Tribes (NT-DNTs) should be the most important aspect of their overall access to social justice. Mental health needs to be redefined as a justice issue, especially in the context of marginalised communities. The NT-DNTs being perhaps one of the earliest communities worldwide to be criminalised for dissenting, the ramifications have acutely affected their mental justice over the last 150 years. This has worsened during the current pandemic. The article puts forth recommendations for the mental and therefore overall justice of NT-DNTs. The author belongs to the Gadiya Lohar Ghisadi nomadic tribe, one of the many Nomadic and Denotified Tribes (NT-DNTs) of India, who form 15% of the total population. Despite this large population, there is very little cultural or administrative understanding of these communities that goes beyond the false and offensive view of them being “crimi ....