Which one of the following Indian Tribes voted for the first time in Lok Sabha Election, 2014

The correct answer is A) Shompens. The Shompen, a Mongoloid hunter-gatherer community living in the interior of Great Nicobar Island, were reported to have cast their votes for the first time in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. This is the tribe the question is testing, and it is the one most often cited for that election.

The core concept here is the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and how their integration into democratic processes has been handled by the administration. For Mains, this links to debates on tribal rights, the Forest Rights Act, and how welfare policy reaches isolated communities.

• Jarawa and Onge are Negrito PVTGs of the Andamans. They are better known to aspirants, which is why they attract wrong picks, but the reporting for this election singled out the Shompen.
• Andamanese is a broad label for the Great Andamanese groups, not the tribe reported for first-time voting in this election.

Trap: Aspirants pick the Andaman tribes because they are more familiar, and they confuse the Nicobar tribe with the Andaman tribes. Remember that the Shompen are in the Nicobar group, not the Andaman group.