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Tribes and Peoples of the World: asked and not asked.
UPSC has asked 7 of these 21. 2 came more than once. 14 have not come yet. Lock the repeated ones first, then read the rest.
First, the concept
Traditional peoples live in step with their land: herders in grasslands and deserts, hunter-gatherers in forests and the Kalahari, reindeer herders in the tundra.
UPPCS asks a tribe with its country or region, often as a 'not correctly matched' pair.
🔁 Asked again and again (2)
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✅ Asked once (5)
Africa
Arctic and Eurasia
- Sami (Lapps) · Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland; reindeer herders
❌ Not asked by UPSC yet (14)
Items marked 'asked in UPPCS' have already come in the UP state exam, so examiners do use them.
Africa
- San (Bushmen) · Kalahari desert; hunter-gatherers asked in UPPCS
- Bedouin · Arabian and Saharan deserts; nomadic herders asked in UPPCS
- Tuareg · Sahara; the 'blue men' of the desert
- Hottentot (Khoikhoi) · South-western Africa
Arctic and Eurasia
- Inuit (Eskimo) · Canada, Greenland, Alaska; igloos, kayaks asked in UPPCS
- Ainu · Hokkaido, Japan asked in UPPCS
- Yakut · Siberia
Asia-Pacific and the Americas
- Maori · New Zealand asked in UPPCS
- Papuans · New Guinea asked in UPPCS
- Semang and Sakai · Malaysia asked in UPPCS
- Native Americans (Red Indians) · North America asked in UPPCS
- Mayan · Guatemala and southern Mexico asked in UPPCS
- Aborigines · Australia
- Quechua and Aymara · Andes of Peru and Bolivia
⚠️ The Maasai are in Kenya–Tanzania, not Zambia. The Bushmen live in the Kalahari, not the Congo forest. The Ainu are in Japan, the Maori in New Zealand.
'Asked' is checked against the solved UPSC questions on this site. 'Not asked yet' does not mean it will surely come.