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Scheduled Tribes

Scheduled Tribes, means certain tribes or tribal communities or groups within them in any State or Union Territory of India

A peculiar African race of uncertain origin but distinct from the negro tribes inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan Their color is brown or yellowish bronze They are Mohammedans Called

Unreserved

has to be applied to vacancies which do not fall within the reserved categories Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Ashok Kumar Sawhney v. Union of India, AIR 1982 SC 795: (1982) 1 SCC 497: (1982) UJ (SC)

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Iroquois

A powerful and warlike confederacy of Indian tribes formerly inhabiting Central New York and constituting most of the Five Nations Also any Indian of the Iroquois

Weaker section of society

1988 MP 142 (144). [Constitution of India, Arts. 15(4) & 16(4)] Members of the Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribes have ordinarily been accepted as belonging to the weaker sections. Attempt to bring in the test of economic

Socially and educationally backward classes

15(4) was explained in Balaji's case, AIR 1963 SC 649 to be comparable to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The reason is that the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes illustrated social and educational backwardness. It is difficult

Shoshones

A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians comprising many tribes which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to

Quichuan

Designating or pertaining to a linguistic stock of South American Indians including the majority of the civilized tribes of the ancient Peruvian Empire with some wild tribes never subjugated by the Incas Most of these Indians

Lenni Lenape

A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia They included the Mohicans Delawares

Phylarchy

The office of a phylarch government of a class or tribe

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