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Colonialism And The Countryside
Why did the British want to clear forests and expand settled cultivation? Enumerate any five reasons.
Because of the followint reasons, the British wanted to clear the forests and expand the settled cultivation of land:
(i) By adopting the settled cultivation of land, the colonial government wanted to enahance its revenue.
(ii) It could grow cash crops for export.
(iii) The British could establish an ordered and civilised society.
(iv) They associated forests with wildness. They considered the forest people as savage, unruly and primitive. They found these people difficult to govern. So they exhorted the Santhals to clear the forests. they encouraged settled agriculture.
(v) They wanted to tame, civilise and persuade the forests people to give up hunting and take up plough to cultivated the land.
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Why did the Santhals rebel against British rule?
Why were many zamindaris auctioned after the Permanent Settlement?
In what way was the livelihood of the Paharias different from that of the Santhals?
How did the American Civil War affect the lives of ryots in India?
What are the problems of using official sources in writing about the history of peasants?
On an outline map of the subcontinent, mark out the areas described in this chapter. Find out whether there were other areas where the Permanent Settlement and the Ryotwari system were prevalent and plot these on the map as well.
Mention the revenue system introduced by the British in Bombay Deccan with one of its main characteristics.
Why was British introduce new systems of revenue?
Explain any two observations made by Buchanan that helped the English East India Company to expand its trade in India.
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