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A) Large-scale industrial manufacturing B) Import and export trade services C) Tourism and hospitality management D) Subsistence agriculture or hunting and gathering
A) Advanced agricultural machinery B) Gold and precious stones C) Salt and iron D) Electronic goods and technology
A) The government granted all land back to the tribes B) Tribes were forced into urban migration C) Migrants received free land for cultivation D) Land was turned into protected national parks
A) As a common resource for whoever needed it B) As a commodity to be sold for profit C) As land belonging exclusively to the state D) As a strictly inherited private asset
A) The government seized all land by force B) They were prohibited from farming their own land C) They moved away to find better jobs D) They did not prioritize obtaining formal land titles
A) Marriage alliances B) Educational scholarships C) Government employment quotas D) Land leases
A) A surge in tribal land ownership B) Decreased interest in tribal territories C) Intense land pressure D) Government-mandated restoration of land
A) Exchange for modern technology B) Voluntary donation to the state C) Loss through environmental disasters D) Debt, bribery, or leases
A) Build schools and hospitals for tribes B) Convert to tribal religions C) Lobby to be classified as tribal D) Marry into tribal families
A) It is highly efficient and swift B) It results in complete removal of all outsiders C) It restores land directly to tribal elders D) It proceeds slowly and often targets poor lower castes
A) Resident non-tribal shopkeepers B) State-run universities C) Large-scale industrial factories D) Government administrative centers
A) Tea and coffee B) Wheat and rice C) Oranges and bananas D) Cotton or castor-oil plants
A) Government intervention to pay off all debts B) Forced enrollment in vocational schools C) Traders selling debtors to other merchants D) Full cancellation of tribal debts
A) Extreme poverty in the region B) Historically distinct political status and isolation C) Severe climate conditions D) Lack of natural resources
A) A ban on all agricultural activities B) A policy requiring special permission for non-Adivasi to enter C) A strategy to mine the Himalayan foothills D) A trade agreement between tribes and the British
A) To promote tourism in the region B) To preserve ancient tribal languages C) As a strategy to secure the border with China D) Due to international humanitarian pressure
A) Ramji Gond B) Tatya Tope C) Birsa Munda D) Rani of Jhansi
A) Bhumij rebellion B) Kol rebellion C) Halba rebellion D) Santhal rebellion
A) Seven B) Five C) Three D) Ten
A) Less than 100 B) Over 2000 C) More than 700 D) Exactly 500
A) Less than 20 B) Exactly 500 C) Exactly 50 D) More than 100
A) Ramji Gond B) Birsa Munda C) Laxman Naik D) Tatya Tope
A) Slavic B) Semitic C) Romance D) Austro-Asiatic
A) 1776 B) 1856–57 C) 1910 D) 1817
A) Temsula Ao B) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy D) Rabindranath Tagore
A) Visakhapatnam district B) Khurda C) Adilabad D) Banswara
A) Banswara B) Odisha C) Adilabad D) Bengal
A) Koli revolt B) Bhumkal C) Kol rebellion D) Maria rebellion
A) Laxman Naik B) Bangaru Devi C) Ramji Gond D) Jantya Bhil
A) Greek B) Sino-Tibetan C) Latin D) Arabic
A) Valmiki B) A Gond Raja C) Bada Meena D) Bharmal
A) 90% B) 8.6% C) 1.1% D) 26.2%
A) Ethnic minority B) Scheduled Tribes C) Animist groups D) Nomadic tribes
A) Dravidian B) Tibeto-Burman C) Munda D) Indo-Aryan
A) Bhils B) Hos C) Gonds D) Santals
A) Dravidian B) Sarnaist C) Indo-Aryan D) Tibeto-Burman
A) Christianity B) Hinduism C) Buddhism D) Sarnaism
A) Animism B) Buddhism C) Hinduism D) Christianity
A) Rice farming B) Mining C) Nomadic herding D) Tea workers
A) Roughly 75% B) More than 90% C) Around 10% D) Around 20%
A) Khasi B) Boyas/Valmikis C) Gonds D) Santals
A) Chakma B) Khasi C) Marma D) Tripuri
A) Beginning inhabitant B) Mountain people C) Ancient ruler D) Forest dweller
A) Dravidian B) Janjati C) Vanavāsi D) Dalit
A) Nepal B) Pakistan C) Sri Lanka D) Bangladesh
A) Jaipal Singh Munda B) Gandhi C) Thakkar Bapa D) Ambedkar
A) Article 366 (25) B) Article 107 C) Article 342 D) Article 169
A) Tea-tribes B) Indo-Aryans C) Dravidians D) Vedda
A) ILO Convention 169 B) UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples C) The 1950 Constitutional Accord D) ILO Convention 107
A) West Bengal B) North East India C) Jharkhand D) Kerala
A) Austroasiatic B) Greek C) Latin D) Arabic
A) Foreign investors only B) Zamindars C) British military generals D) Adivasi elders
A) 1832 B) 1947 C) 1789 D) 1857
A) The Great Kol Uprising B) Munda independence war C) Bhumij rebellion D) Santal hul
A) Permanent migration to Europe B) Return migration to their ancestral lands C) Internal migrations within India D) Mass migration to the Americas
A) The Indian National Congress B) The British government C) The East India Company D) The local tribal rajas
A) Positively B) Negatively C) Enthusiastically D) Indifferently
A) Forest tribe B) Hill and forest tribe C) Primitive tribe D) Tribal animist
A) Forest tribe B) Animist C) Tribes D) Primitive tribe
A) Madhya Pradesh B) Jharkhand C) Lakshadweep D) Odisha
A) Greek B) Latin C) Persian D) Sanskrit
A) Monistic Vedic worship B) Non-human entities possess a spiritual essence C) Reincarnation of the soul D) Worship of Indo-European deities
A) 1941 B) 1911 C) 1931 D) 1921
A) An anthropological construct B) A word used by indigenous people C) A synonym for Hinduism D) A formal name for a religion
A) Post-independence B) 19th century C) British period D) 14th century
A) Spirit worship B) Holy woods C) Sacred grove D) Sun-Moon
A) Nicobar Islands B) Arunachal Pradesh C) Nilgiri hills D) Central-East India
A) Written scriptures B) Digital archives C) Oral traditions D) Formal schooling
A) Sun deity B) Sacred grove C) Holy animal D) Witch doctor
A) Nicobar Islands B) Central-East India C) Nilgiri hills D) Arunachal Pradesh
A) Tulsi B) Rose C) Cactus D) Sunflower
A) Eagle B) Tiger C) Lion D) Cobra
A) Maple B) Oak C) Pine D) Neem
A) Hunter gatherer B) Sedentary farmers C) Nomadic traders D) Urban dwellers
A) Shaivism B) Vedic Ritualism C) Brahma Dharma D) The Kallar Reform Movement
A) Sant Kubera B) Kalean Guru (Kalean Murmu) C) Sant Kalu Dev D) Maharshi Matanga
A) Swine flesh B) Dried lotus flowers C) Water from a stream D) Half-eaten ber fruit
A) Bodo B) Santal C) Kallar D) Nishadha
A) Maharshi Matanga B) Sant Dhira C) Sant Kubera D) Guru Brahma
A) Lingaraja Temple B) Karppillikkavu Sree Mahadeva Temple C) Indraprastha Temple D) Brahma Dharma Temple
A) Temple priest B) Kallar (robber) C) Hunter D) Fisherman
A) 100,000 B) 10,000 C) 5,000 D) 20,000
A) Sant Tirumangai Alvar B) Sant Kubera C) Sant Dhudhalinath D) Sant Kalu Dev
A) Technologically superior B) Less civilised C) More civilised D) Equally civilised
A) Constant warfare B) Commercial trade agreements C) Matrimonial relations D) Joint military alliances
A) 51 B) 632 C) 3 D) 14
A) 1000 B) 500 C) 750 D) 632
A) 59% B) 29.6% C) 8.5% D) 40%
A) Asansol, West Bengal B) Kohima, Nagaland C) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh D) Tejgadh, Gujarat
A) 1991 B) 1999 C) 1961 D) 2011
A) Khasis B) Nagas C) Gonds D) Mizos
A) Moderate B) Very low C) Non-existent D) Very high
A) 37% B) 40.6% C) 59% D) 13.8%
A) Tribal Upliftment Scheme B) Green Revolution C) Forest Protection Drive D) Salwa Judum
A) By filing land ownership petitions B) By negotiating with tribal elders C) By signing government contracts D) By bribing local officials
A) Local merchant guilds B) Missionaries C) Government bureaucrats D) Foreign corporations
A) Sanskrit B) Assamese C) English D) Hindi
A) Manmohan Singh B) Jawaharlal Nehru C) Indira Gandhi D) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
A) The Western Ghats B) The Thar Desert C) The Red Corridor D) The Indo-Gangetic Plain
A) Meiteis B) Gujjar C) Meena D) Bodo |