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    DEVELOPMENT IN TRIBAL AREAS OF WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH: PERSPECTIVES, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
    (University of Hyderabad, 2008) BABU MALLA V ARAPU, RAM ; Murty, M.L.K.
    India bas the second largest concentratIOn of tribal populatIOn, after that of the Afhcan contment Trlbals are the 'autochthonous' people of the land who are beheved to be the earliest settlers m the IndIan perunsuJa (Veona 1990 1·7) They have been neglected In IsolatIOn all th rough the centunes They are generally called as adrvaSIS Implymg 'abongmals' or 'ongmal mhabltants' The trlbals were Included under 'arumlsts', 'forest trtbes', 'hIli tnbes' and 'depressed classes' up to 1921 census reports Later, the indian franchIse committee accorded a separate nomenclature for tnba1 groups m the census reports of 1931 as 'primitIve tribes', III 1941 as 'tribes' and after 1951 census onwards as 'scheduled trIbes' (STs) (Verma 1996 10·14)
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    FEUDAL CHIEFS, SOCIO HISTORICAL RELATIONS AND APPROPRIATION OF POWER IN MEDIEVAL ANDHRA
    (University of Hyderabad, 2006) SWAROOPA RANI, CHALLAPALLI ; Murty, M.L.K. ; Hangloo, R.L
    In the recent past, the reconstruction of history of the medieval Andhra has thrown up various Issues, which need to be addressed In the light of recent developments In historiography The scholars on political history of Andhra mainly concentrated on the major powers In medieval Andhra such as the Kakallyas and the VIJayanagaras The Samantha system, and the feudatory chiefs and the minor prlnclpalilles which also played a prominent role in the political affairs dUring the medieval period In Andhra, did not receive much attention In particular, studies on the SOCIOhlstoncal basis and the antecedent conditions which prOVided opportunilies for the chiefs in medieval Andhra In approprlallng power, are rather meager. In view of the growing interest In recent Indian histOriography on the study of "state formation", an attempt is made here to investigate the role of different chiefs and chieftains and other principalities In the power dynamiCs of medieval Andhra Fortunately, there IS a large body of source materlal,both inscriptional and literary as well as the bulk of Telugu literature that has grown from 11 th century onwards