ABSTRACT
Control of industrial settlements was vested with the settlement managers. To help them in day-to-day activities an assistant manager was appointed. Industrial settlements were opened to place certain members of the criminal tribes (CTs) in order to restrict their movements according to the provisions of Criminal Tribes Act. Management of industrial settlements was kept under the supervision of the American Baptist Telugu Mission. Reclamation of CTs was the main intention of the government and therefore it requested Baptist missionaries to open industrial settlements in Madras province. In the industrial settlements within the limits of each settlement, a separate guard house or lock-up for men and women were opened. As a consequence no police officer the rank of deputy superintendent of police was permitted to enter any of the settlements without being accompanied by the local manager or his representative.
