What is the population of Kamar Tribe in Madhya Pradesh according to the 2011 Census?

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Correct — C, 666. The Census of India 2011 recorded just 666 Kamar in Madhya Pradesh, which places the community among the smallest Scheduled Tribes enumerated in the state. The Kamar are essentially a Chhattisgarh people — 26,630 of them were counted there in 2011 and Chhattisgarh notifies them as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group — so what Madhya Pradesh retains after the 2000 bifurcation is a small residual population. This is a Census-table recall question: the four options sit exactly 200 apart, so no amount of reasoning narrows them down; the figure has to be carried in memory as a pair — Kamar, 666.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Not the figure the 2011 Census records for the Kamar in Madhya Pradesh. The options differ only in the hundreds digit, which is exactly the device used to punish approximate memory.  (b) Not the Census 2011 figure for this community in Madhya Pradesh. Nothing in the question — region, occupation, district — hints at a value, so an intermediate-looking option carries no extra plausibility.  (d) Not the Census 2011 figure. The Kamar count in Madhya Pradesh stays below 700; the highest option is included only to catch candidates who round upward.

Concept: Madhya Pradesh has the largest Scheduled Tribe population of any State in India — about 1.53 crore people, roughly 21 per cent of the state's population — but that mass is spread extremely unevenly. Bhil and Gond run into millions, while a long tail of small communities is counted in hundreds. The Kamar belong to that tail. Their real home is Chhattisgarh (Gariaband, Dhamtari, Mahasamund, Kanker), where they live by hunting, gathering, shifting cultivation and bamboo craft, and where they are notified as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group. In 2023 Kamar families of Magarlod block in Dhamtari district became the first PVTG in Chhattisgarh to receive habitat rights under the Forest Rights Act, 2006.

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