Tribal Administration and Development is a book which traces the origin and growth of the efforts for the development of tribal populations in India. Apart from examining various approaches to tribal development, it enumerates the administrative structures and organisational strategies adopted during the last many years of planning, the out-lay on tribal development during the plans and the priorities adopted have also been indicated. The Tribal Sub-Plan strategy and its implementation has been examined elaborately and an evaluation of the schemes therein has been attempted. The personnel policy adopted in tribal development finds a special and critical treatment. Brief ethnographic notes on a few tribes of representative nature have also been given. Coming as it is from an author who has been associated with the factual situation in the field of development, the book has a pragmatic and realistic base while dealing with the theoretical concerns of the subject. Practical aspects of the development and social change have also been discussed and analysed. The book is useful for planners and administrators, students and scholars, leaders and practitioners in tribal populations and for all those who have concern for their weaker brethren the tribals.
