India A Condensed from the Study on Indigenous Peoples (Scheduled Tribes of India) by the Association of Voluntary Agencies for Rural Development (AVARD). For more details of the case, contact: avard@bol.net. in. ccording to the portal of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, the term “Scheduled Tribe (ST)” (used to refer to India’s indigenous peoples) first appeared in the Constitution of India, in Article 366(25). The said Article defined scheduled tribes as “such tribes or tribal communities or parts of groups within such tribes or tribal communities as are deemed under Article 342 to be Scheduled Tribes for the purposes of this Constitution.” Bonda tribe of Malkangiri, Orissa. Photo by AVARD. 46 Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC)