History is never only history of; it is always history for”

-Levi-Strauss

The paper was presented in an International Seminar “Indian State and Indigenous/Tribal Peoples: Revisiting Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Guarantees”, organized by Bodoland University & Centre for Social Justice and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences at Kokrajhar on 28-29th March 2014. The seminar was supported by the Tribal Intellectual Collective India.

Introduction

While the focus of most of the scholarly works on tribes has been on kinship, their social structure, ethnographical studies, culture and religious traditions, modernisation, and socio-economic transformation, studies on tribal native mode of administration have been rather rare. The present paper will attempt to sketch a history of Agency administration in Andhra. It was administration for tribal regions of Andhra during colonial period. One important feature of the British rule in India is that when the colonial rulers occupied the plains and main lands of the county, they formulated policies first to grab the revenues and resources and later designed the administration to execute the policies. It is the policy driven administration that the British adopted in the plains and the main lands. Contrary to this, in the Agency areas the system of British governance was to formulate administrative apparatus first and later to support it by forest policies.

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