Sovereign and ‘Tribesmen’ in Jungleterry: Augustus Cleveland and the Birth of Tribal Policy in Early Colonial Bengal

This monograph is about Augustus Cleveland- the architect of tribal policy in early colonial India. The tribal institutions, conceived and introduced by Cleveland had served as a model in colonial India. This model also provided the essential foundation for tribal policies in postcolonial India. Clevelands’s brief yet significant career in a remote place in the then Bengal called Jungleterry witnessed birth of the tribal policy during the foundational phase of British rule in India.