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Synopsis This book analyses the changes in approaches, strategies and schemes for tribal development in India over the various Five Year Plan Periods. Special attention has been paid to the problems and achievement of tribal development programmes and administrative arrangements in India’s Central Tribal Belt (CTB) comprising the states of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan that contains nearly three-fourths of the country’s tribal population. Tracing the story from Jawaharlal Nehru’s 'Panchsheel’ for the tribals, to the Dhebar Commission (1961), the launching of Tribal Sub-Plan during Fifth Plan and on to the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, this study in policy and administration looks at issues of literacy and education, health and nutrition, lack of infrastructure, income and employment, displacement and growing extremism amongst the tribals of the CTB. Future challenges have also been discussed and a number of recommendations made. Thus, the book is likely to interest policy makers and policy analysts, sociologists and social anthropologists, students of public administration and development planning, and the intelligent and aware laymen concerned about the developmental issues.