This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Polity > Administration > Tribal > Scheduled And Tribal Areas – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Scheduled And Tribal Areas Quiz 1 (31 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. During the formation of whom the Maravars were brought in as socially outcast tribes or traditionally as lowest entrants into the shudra category. A) Maravars. B) Gokhars. C) Tamilaham. D) Gondis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tamilaham. 2. What is the best befitting meaning of the word "Harijan" ? A) God of Hari. B) Children of God. C) Children of Hari. D) People of Hari. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Children of God. 3. What is gondi tribes main work A) Agriculture. B) Cleaning homes. C) Nail art. D) Painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agriculture. 4. There are over ..... Scheduled Tribes in India according to The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes A) 701. B) 771. C) 699. D) 700. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 700. 5. Which act was implemented to address crimes and atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes? A) SC/ ST Prevention of Atrocities Act 1989. B) The Scheduled Castes and Tribes Act, 1989. C) The Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1995. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SC/ ST Prevention of Atrocities Act 1989. 6. ..... gives the President the power to notify those communities in specific regions that fall under the classification of Scheduled Tribes. A) Article 340. B) Article 341. C) Article 343. D) Article 342. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Article 342. 7. Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu were two tribal leaders who rose againist the British. Which tribe did they belong to? A) Bhil. B) Gond. C) Santhal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Santhal. 8. Scheduled caste are also referred to as A) Avarna. B) Savarna. C) Kvarna. D) Navarna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Avarna. 9. ..... of the Constitution also contains provisions for the administration of Tribal Areas, but in the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Mizoram. A) The Fifth Schedule. B) The Seventh Schedule. C) The Sixteenth Schedule. D) The Sixth Schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Sixth Schedule. 10. Which state has the largest population of Scheduled Tribes A) Punjab. B) Rajsthan. C) Mahrashta. D) Kerala. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rajsthan. 11. What is the branch of maravans A) Municipal counsell. B) Judical. C) Mukkulathor confederacy. D) Legislative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mukkulathor confederacy. 12. Who was the founder of the Adivasi Mahasabha, formed in 1938, which later became the Jharkhnd Party? A) Nirmal Munda. B) Jaipal Singh. C) BR Ambedkar. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jaipal Singh. 13. Who are the tribal people in UAE A) Emiratis. B) Indians. C) Afgans. D) All the people in the Country. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emiratis. 14. Who is known as the god of gonds worship A) Jesus. B) Baradeo. C) Krishna. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baradeo. 15. Who among these is a prominent Dalit writer from Maharashtra? A) Munshi Premchand. B) Girish Karnad. C) Baburao Bagul. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Baburao Bagul. 16. Who is the most distinctive feature of Gond religion. A) Pamela G, Price. B) Persa Pen. C) Zamindars. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Persa Pen. 17. What are Austroasiatic population called A) Mundas. B) Gondis. C) Maravans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mundas. 18. Which activist and scholar first used the word Dalit for Scheduled Castes of India? A) BR Ambedkar. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Jyotirao Phule. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jyotirao Phule. 19. ..... directs the state to create a National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, to oversee the implementation of the provisions and safeguards of the rights of Scheduled Tribes in India A) Article 338A. B) Article 332. C) Article 243T. D) Article 243D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Article 338A. 20. The Bhil Community is a predominant Tribe of which of the following state A) West Bengal. B) Odisha. C) Chhattisgarh. D) Rajasthan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rajasthan. 21. What are the Gonds that share their closest genetic similarity with the Austroasiatic population called A) Gondi markers. B) Analyasist. C) Autosomal markers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autosomal markers. 22. Khasi tribe is mainly found in which state of India? A) Mizoram. B) Manipur. C) Arunachal Pradesh. D) Meghalaya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meghalaya. 23. Tribal Population of India? A) 64 Million. B) 104 Million. C) 33 Billion. D) 300. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 104 Million. 24. What is maravar also known as A) Thevar. B) Marava or maravans. C) Meram. D) Ramnad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marava or maravans. 25. The Gond tribes are mostly found in Central India in which district of Madhya Pradesh? A) Bastar. B) Pimpri. C) Udupi. D) Chhindwara. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chhindwara. 26. Who among these was a tribal leader who played a prominent role in India's fight for freedom? A) Tantia Tope. B) Birsa Munda. C) Nanasaheb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birsa Munda. 27. What is the name of the horrific title of maravar community A) Maram. B) Srinikesh. C) Thevar. D) Zamindars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thevar. 28. Who was the first Dalit President of India? A) APJ Abdul Kalam. B) Zail Singh. C) KR Narayanan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) KR Narayanan. 29. ST face oppressions due to the Hindu Caste system? A) True. B) False. C) Can't Say. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 30. The Boa Tribe belong to which of the following? A) Lakshadweep. B) Port Blair. C) Andamans. D) Sri Lanka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Andamans. 31. During the British colonial era, the Maravars were sometimes recorded as ..... A) Vaishiyas. B) Brahmanas. C) Shudras. D) Kshatriyas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kshatriyas. Related QuizzesAdministration QuizzesIndian Polity Quizzes 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books