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

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