Social Justice MCQs for UPSC Prelims — August 2026

Q1. The Jabali Yojna, aimed at ending socially accepted prostitution among certain denotified communities and at rehabilitating their children, was launched by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in which year?

  • A. 1986
  • B. 1989
  • C. 1996
  • D. 1992

Q2. The practice known as 'Chaari Pratha', reported among a nomadic community of Rajasthan, denotes which one of the following?

  • A. The dedication of a daughter to a temple deity, after which she may not marry any mortal man
  • B. The sale, or mortgaging for a fixed period, of daughters by their parents for prostitution before adulthood
  • C. The obligation on a family to keep the eldest daughter unmarried so that she inherits the household's land
  • D. The exchange of daughters between two families in lieu of bride price when a marriage is contracted

Q3. Among the communities linked to family-sanctioned commercial sexual exploitation in Madhya Pradesh, which one is spread over the largest area — about a dozen districts across the Chambal, Malwa and Bundelkhand regions?

  • A. The Bachara, whose presence is confined to the districts of the Malwa plateau
  • B. The Bedia, whose settlements extend across roughly twelve districts of the State
  • C. The Kanjar, whose settlements extend along the districts bordering eastern Rajasthan
  • D. The Nat, whose presence is concentrated in the districts of the Bundelkhand region

Q4. In official usage in India, the expression 'De-notified Communities' refers precisely to which one of the following?

  • A. Nomadic communities that were left out of the Scheduled Tribes list when the first Presidential Order on Scheduled Tribes was issued in 1950
  • B. Forest-dwelling communities whose habitations ceased to be reserved or notified forest areas after the repeal of colonial forest regulations
  • C. Communities that gave up their itinerant occupations and were settled in registered villages under the Habitual Offenders Acts of the States
  • D. Communities that had been registered as 'criminal tribes' under colonial law and lost that designation when the Criminal Tribes Act was repealed in 1952