# Terminology note: Adivasi vs Scheduled Tribe in the Havanur Commission Report (1975) ## Quick finding A text scan of the five report files (Vol I Part I, Vol I Part II appendices, Vol II, Vol III, Vol IV) shows that the word **“Adivasi”** appears **very rarely** (single clear instance found), while **“Scheduled Tribe(s)”** / **“tribe(s)”** appears extensively across volumes. ## One explicit “Adivasi” usage found From **Vol I Part I** (`dli.csl.2681`), in a passage discussing Constituent Assembly composition: > “...Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, Parsees, Anglo-Indians, **Adivasis** and Scheduled Castes.” This appears as a descriptive social term in a historical discussion, not the report’s dominant analytical category. ## Dominant category in the report Across the report corpus, the dominant terms are: - **Scheduled Tribes** - **Tribes** - occasionally historical/administrative variants such as **Backward Tribes** This is consistent with constitutional and policy language used for reservation and state classification frameworks in that period (especially Articles 341/342 context and administrative tabulation practice). ## Did the report exclude tribal/Adivasi data? **No.** The report does not appear to exclude tribal communities. Instead, they are incorporated primarily under **Scheduled Tribe/tribe** terminology. Evidence patterns across volumes: - **Vol II (Population & Education):** caste/tribe/community tabulations and ST-related educational/population entries. - **Vol III (Service Particulars):** service representation entries including Scheduled Tribes. - **Vol IV (Socio-economic survey data):** survey instruments and tables with tribe/community fields. - **Vol I + Appendices:** constitutional/legal discussion repeatedly referencing Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. ## Interpretation note for present-day readers If read through contemporary social-justice vocabulary, the report may seem to underuse “Adivasi.” But this mostly reflects the era’s **official legal-administrative register**, not a total omission of tribal communities from data and analysis. --- ## Primary files scanned (Internet Archive) - Vol I Part I: https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.2681 - Vol II: https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.2705 - Vol III: https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.2719 - Vol IV: https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.2707 - Vol I Part II (Appendices): https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.2833