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Tribal Problems & Displacement Questions in UPSC Anthropology Optional Mains
The pressures facing tribal communities — land alienation, indebtedness, poor health and literacy — and the displacement and rehabilitation questions raised by dams, mines and other development projects.
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Paper II 7.1–7.2 — Problems of Tribal Communities, Displacement and Rehabilitation
All year-wise Tribal Problems & Displacement questions
2026
What are the major challenges tribal communities are facing in contemporary India?
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2026
Make a critical appraisal of Niyamgiri movement against mining-induced displacement.
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2026
Write an account on the prevalence of sickle cell disease among the tribal populations of India. What are the initiatives undertaken by the affected states to tackle with this disease?
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2025
Impact of urbanization and industrialization on tribal communities of India
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2025
Examine the environmental and biocultural factors influencing the health of tribals of India.
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2024
Causes of stunting and wasting among tribal children
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2024
Examine the impact of Forest Policies from 1878 to 2006 on land alienation and deprivation of rights of tribal communities in India.
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2024
Custodians of natural resources are the tribals, but they are the most deprived. Critically examine how climate change will impact their survival in future.
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2024
Critically examine existing paradigms of holistic health for the marginalised sections of society drawing inferences from COVID-19 pandemic.
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2024
Discuss the economic, social, and developmental impacts on tribal communities with special reference to mining.
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2023
Critically examine how the displacement of tribal communities due to hydroelectric river dam projects has affected the women in local context. Illustrate with suitable ethnographic examples.
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2022
Issues of tribal agricultural labourers
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2022
How can a balance be struck between livelihood concern and environmental degradation in the context of shifting cultivation?
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2021
Elucidate the problems and challenges in educational attainment of the Scheduled Tribes.
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2021
Urbanization and tribal institutions
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2021
Discuss the impact of the Forest Rights Act (2006) on the livelihood and culture of tribal people in India.
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2021
Examine the factors responsible for malnutrition in tribal India and suggest interventions required to overcome the problem.
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2021
Explain the impact of successive Land Acquisition Acts on tribal social organization.
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2021
Discuss the problems involved in rehabilitation and resettlement of tribals displaced due to development projects in India.
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2020
Explain the impact of development-induced displacement among the tribal people in India with suitable examples.
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2020
Elucidate the problems of land alienation among the tribals of India.
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2019
What has been the impact of development projects on the environment and livelihood of forest-dwelling tribes ?
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2019
Issues relating to tribal education.
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2018
Examine the advancement made in the land acquisition and rehabilitation Act of 2013 over the land acquisition Act of 1894.
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2018
Discuss the significance and implementation of 'Recognition of Forest Right's Act 2006'.
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2017
Indebtedness among tribal communities.
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2017
Describe the impact of displacement on the health and nutritional status of tribal communities.
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2016
Impact of industrialization on scheduled tribe population of Jharkhand
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2016
Explain the difficulties experienced by scheduled tribes with regard to implementation of the 'Recognition of Forest Rights Act, 2006'.
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2015
Discuss the sociocultural, economic and psychological constraints responsible for low literacy in tribal areas.
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2015
Discuss how constitutional provisions in India have built-in mechanisms for dealing with the problem of land alienation in tribal areas.
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2014
Forest policy and tribes
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2014
Discuss the impact of land alienation on the tribes of Central India.
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2014
Discuss the impact of globalization on the livelihood of the tribal populations.
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