15 Scheduled Tribes that #UPSC has asked in Prelims PYQs and every aspirant must know for #Prelims 2023
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🔹Bhutia and Lepcha: Indigenous tribes of Sikkim
🔹Gond and Korku: Melghat tiger reserve
🔹Irula and Toda: Tribals of Niligiris of TN
🔹Sahariya (RJ): Tribals from MP, one of most backward in RJ
🔹Agariya (GJ): A salt making tribe of Kutch
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• Earliest record: Tipu Sultan's rockets in Anglo-Mysore wars (see image)
• Stalled during British era due to lack of interest, resources & research capacity
2. Post Independence
• 1958: Special Weapon Development Team estd.
(by 1962, this was called Defense Research & Development Lab (DRDL))
• 1970s:
Project Devil: to reverse-engineer Soviet Guideline missile; terminated in 80s but left imp. tech
Project Valiant: Attempted to develop ICBM w/ 8k km range; discontinued by mid 70s.
• 1980s:
IGMDP (Integrated Guided Missile Development Program) by Dr. Kalam →self-reliant goals in response to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) restrictions