With reference to India, the terms ‘Halbi, Ho and Kui’ pertain to

With reference to India, the terms ‘Halbi, Ho and Kui’ pertain to

dance forms of Northwest India
musical instruments
pre-historic cave paintings
tribal languages
This question was previously asked in
UPSC IAS – 2021
Option D is the correct answer. Halbi, Ho, and Kui are names of tribal languages spoken in different parts of India, particularly in the central and eastern regions.
India is home to numerous languages, including many tribal languages belonging to different language families. Halbi is an Indo-Aryan language, while Ho belongs to the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic languages, and Kui is a Dravidian language.
These names are specifically associated with linguistic groups and their languages, not dance forms, musical instruments, or pre-historic cave paintings. For example, the Ho people speak the Ho language, and the Kandha people speak the Kui language.