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Competition Success Review published this article page no 40 large scale irrigation schemes like the ones in the punjab were accompanied by efforts to settle populations there and these also had a caste dimension. at the other end of the scale towards the end of the colonial period the administration also took an interest in the welfare of downtrodden castes referred to as the depressed classes at that time. it was as part of these efforts that the government of india act of 1935 was passed which gave legal recognition to the lists or schedules of castes and tribes marked out for special treatment by the state. this is how the terms scheduled tribes and the scheduled castes came into being competition success review gk today.