RAS question
Consider statements about the Bhil tribe: 1. Bhils are second largest ST in Rajasthan after Meena. 2. Predominantly concentrated in Mewar and Vagad regions. 3. Bhil tribal rebellion of 1818 was against British taxation and forest policies. 4. Their tribal language Bhili is in the Eighth Schedule of Indian Constitution. Which statements are INCORRECT?
Correct answer: (C) 4 only.
Only statement 4 is incorrect because Bhili is not included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India.
Explanation
Statements 1, 2 and 3 stand: Bhils are treated here as the second largest Scheduled Tribe in Rajasthan after Meena, their concentration is in the Mewar and Vagad regions, and the 1818 Bhil rebellion is linked to British taxation and forest policies. The decisive error is statement 4. The Ministry of Home Affairs note on the Eighth Schedule lists 22 languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri. Bhili is not on that list, so the language claim makes only statement 4 incorrect.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Statements 1 and 2 are not incorrect: Bhil is treated as Rajasthan's second largest Scheduled Tribe after Meena and Bhil concentration is placed in Mewar and Vagad.
- (B) Statement 3 is not incorrect because the 1818 Bhil rebellion context of British taxation and forest policies stands; only statement 4 fails.
- (D) Statement 1 is not incorrect because Bhil is treated as the second largest Scheduled Tribe in Rajasthan after Meena; pairing it with statement 4 overstates the error set.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan tribal geography with a linked constitutional-language fact. RAS often repeats such statement-set questions because they combine regional community distribution with precise constitutional schedules.