Which of the following is NOT correctly matched ? (Tribes) (Location)

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Correct — C, 'Khas – Arunachal Pradesh' is the pair that is NOT correctly matched. The Khas are an Indo-Aryan / Pahari people of the western and central Himalaya — Nepal, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh (and Sikkim/Darjeeling) — not of Arunachal Pradesh in the far north-east. The other three pairs are correct: the Angamis are a major Naga tribe of Nagaland, the Birhors are a nomadic hunter-gatherer group of Jharkhand's Chhotanagpur plateau, and the Todas are a pastoral community of the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu. So the mismatched pair, and the answer, is (c).

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Correctly matched, so not the answer — the Angami are one of the principal Naga tribes, concentrated around Kohima in Nagaland.  (b) Correctly matched, so not the answer — the Birhor are a nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe (a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group) of the Chhotanagpur plateau in Jharkhand.  (d) Correctly matched, so not the answer — the Toda are a small pastoral community native to the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu.

Concept: Indian tribes cluster into distinct geographic belts — the north-eastern hills (Naga, Mizo, Apatani), the central-Indian tribal belt (Gond, Santhal, Birhor, Munda), the southern hills (Toda, Chenchu, Irula) and the Himalayan Pahari belt (Gaddi, Bhotia, and the Khas of the western/central Himalaya). 'Odd-one-out' matching questions test whether you can place a tribe in its correct region; an exotic-sounding name in the wrong belt is the usual trap.

State PCS 2020 Q54 — Geography PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2020 Q54 — Geography PYQ with Answer