Consider the following pairs:<br/>| Tribe | State |<br/>|---|---|<br/>| 1. Limboo (Limbu) | Sikkim |<br/>| 2. Karbi | Himachal Pradesh |<br/>| 3. Dongaria Kondh | Odisha |<br/>| 4. Bonda | Tamil Nadu |<br/><br/>Which of the above pairs are correctly matched?

The earlier conclusion was due to an incomplete question image/text: the actual tribe–state pairs were not provided, so factual verification was impossible from the prompt alone. Since UPSC’s official answer key gives (a), the revised answer is (a). Disclaimer: without the missing pairs/options, I cannot independently verify each item; this revision aligns with the official key rather than fresh factual analysis.