CONTENTS: Abbreviations, List of Images, Maps, and Table, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Spaces of Exception/Regimes of Protection: The Making of the Colonial Administrative Discourse on Scheduling Tribal Areas (1918–1936), 2. Anthropology and Administration: J. H. Hutton and the Formulation of the Tribal Question, 3. J. P. Mills and the Huttonian Paradigm, 4. Uplift, Assimilation, and Socio-Religious Reform: A. V. Thakkar and the Aboriginal Tribes, 5. Framing ‘Backwardness’: Nationalist Responses to the Tribal Question, 6. The Challenge of Backwardness: W. V. Grigson and the Aboriginal Tribes of Central India, 7. Re-examining the Ghurye–Elwin Debate: The Aboriginal Tribe as ‘Backward Hindu’, 8. A Future for the Tribes: The Making of the Fifth and Sixth Schedules of the Indian Constitution, Epilogue, Bibliography, Index.