ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with two district council Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC). The history of autonomous district councils, in Northeast India, shows that additional powers and functions are given to particular district council as per demands made. The BTC has legislative, executive, administrative and financial powers with respect to the subjects transferred to it. In the backdrop of the theories of autochthony/indigeneity, an attempt has been made here to juxtapose the autochthony discourses of Tripura tribals as well as Bodos of BTC and to make a comparative assessment of them. A constant argument by Northeast tribals and for that matter BTC and TTAADC is the question of indigeneity. Bodos of BTC claim that they were the indigenous peoples who first settled in that part of territory, and similarly tribals of TTAADC also argued that Tripura once belonged to princely kingdom of Tripuri king and they are the indigenous people.
