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Malainadu, a tribal administrative unit that was mooted, but did not take off

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V. Subbarayan, a police officer, had proposed to the Aboriginal Tribes Welfare Committee, constituted in 1946, that the hill tracts of Salem, South Arcot, North Arcot, and Tiruchi “may be constituted into a separate tribal administrative unit…for intense development purposes”. The scheme was aimed at introducing local self-government in these areas

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