Match List-I of books on tribes with List-II of their authors and select the correct answer using the codes given below: List-I (Books): (i) The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India (ii) Tribal Development in M.P. : A Planning Perspective (iii) The Bhils : A Study (iv) The Baiga; List-II (Authors): 1. Verrier Elwin 2. T.B. Naik 3. R.V. Russell and R.B. Hiralal 4. Ajit Raizada
- (a)(i)-3, (ii)-4, (iii)-2, (iv)-1
- (b)(i)-1, (ii)-2, (iii)-4, (iv)-3
- (c)(i)-4, (ii)-1, (iii)-3, (iv)-2
- (d)(i)-2, (ii)-3, (iii)-1, (iv)-4
Correct — A, (i)-3, (ii)-4, (iii)-2, (iv)-1. 'The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India' (four volumes, 1916) was compiled by R.V. Russell of the Indian Civil Service, assisted by Rai Bahadur Hira Lal, under the orders of the Central Provinces administration — so (i) goes with 3. 'Tribal Development in M.P.: A Planning Perspective' is Ajit Raizada's study of tribal development planning in Madhya Pradesh — (ii) goes with 4. 'The Bhils: A Study' (1956) is T.B. Naik's ethnography of the Bhils — (iii) goes with 2. 'The Baiga' (1939, with a foreword by the anthropologist J.H. Hutton) is Verrier Elwin's classic monograph on the Baiga of the Satpura–Maikal belt — (iv) goes with 1.
- (b)(i)-1, (ii)-2, (iii)-4, (iv)-3 — Reverses the two best-known pairs: it hands Russell's colonial survey to Verrier Elwin and Elwin's 'The Baiga' to Russell and Hiralal. A 1916 volume titled 'Central Provinces' cannot belong to Elwin, who wrote in the late 1930s.
- (c)(i)-4, (ii)-1, (iii)-3, (iv)-2 — Gives the 1916 colonial gazetteer to a modern planning writer (Ajit Raizada) and the post-independence planning book to Elwin — the eras do not match, and 'The Baiga' is not T.B. Naik's.
- (d)(i)-2, (ii)-3, (iii)-1, (iv)-4 — Tempting because it puts a Bhil study with Elwin, who wrote on many central Indian tribes — but 'The Bhils: A Study' is T.B. Naik's, and Elwin's monograph in this list is 'The Baiga'.
Writing on the tribes of central India comes in three clear layers, and the title usually tells you the layer. (1) Colonial administrative ethnography — R.V. Russell with Rai Bahadur Hira Lal produced 'The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India' (1916) as an official four-volume survey of the province that later became much of Madhya Pradesh. (2) Anthropological monographs on a single tribe — Verrier Elwin's 'The Baiga' (1939) and T.B. Naik's 'The Bhils: A Study' (1956). (3) Post-independence development literature — Ajit Raizada's 'Tribal Development in M.P.: A Planning Perspective', which reads tribal welfare through the language of plans and programmes.
You almost never need all four pairs in a match-list. Fix the two anchors most candidates know — Verrier Elwin ↔ 'The Baiga', and Russell & Hiralal ↔ 'The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India' — and only one code, (a), satisfies both. Use the title as a date-stamp: 'Central Provinces' is colonial-era vocabulary, while 'Planning Perspective' can only be post-1950 development writing.
- 'The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India' (1916, 4 volumes) — R.V. Russell, ICS, assisted by Rai Bahadur Hira Lal
- 'The Baiga' (1939) — Verrier Elwin's monograph on the Baiga; foreword by J.H. Hutton
- 'The Bhils: A Study' (1956) — T.B. Naik (Thakorlal B. Naik), published by Bharatiya Adimjati Sevak Sangh
- Verrier Elwin's other central-Indian work includes 'The Agaria' and 'The Muria and their Ghotul'; he was later Adviser for Tribal Affairs in NEFA (now Arunachal Pradesh)
- Assuming Verrier Elwin wrote every classic tribal monograph — the Bhil study in this list is T.B. Naik's
- Ignoring the date clue in a title: 'Central Provinces' fixes the book in the colonial period (1916), not in modern planning literature
MPPSC likes book-to-author match-lists on tribes and on Madhya Pradesh's history and literature; UPSC approaches tribes through location, PVTG status and rights (Fifth Schedule, PESA, Forest Rights Act) rather than through authorship.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
'The Baiga' (1939), a classic ethnographic monograph on a central Indian tribe, was written by:
- (a)Verrier Elwin
- (b)R.V. Russell
- (c)T.B. Naik
- (d)Ajit Raizada
Answer(a) Verrier Elwin — his 1939 monograph on the Baiga, with a foreword by J.H. Hutton.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Baiga tribe of Madhya Pradesh is mainly concentrated in which belt?
- (a)The Malwa plateau around Ujjain and Indore
- (b)The Satpura–Maikal hills of Mandla, Dindori, Balaghat and Shahdol
- (c)The Bundelkhand plains of Sagar and Datia
- (d)The Nimar plains along the lower Narmada
Answer(b) The Satpura–Maikal hills of Mandla, Dindori, Balaghat and Shahdol — the Baiga are a PVTG of this forested belt, extending into adjoining Chhattisgarh.