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The government's official term for Adivasis is:
AScheduled Tribes
BSelected Tribes
CSettled Tribes
DSeparate Tribes
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Scheduled Tribes
1. Official documents use a fixed phrase.
2. It appears in the Constitution too.
3. Scheduled Tribes is the term used for Adivasis in official documents.
4. So the answer is Scheduled Tribes.
_Source: NCERT Class 8 Social and Political Life III, Ch 5 'Understanding Marginalisation'_
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