How did the British encourage the Santhals to settle in Rajmahal hills?

Solution

The British efforts to encourage the Santhals to settle in Rajmahal Hills:

(i) The Santhals had began to come into Bengal around the 1780s. zamindars hired them to reclaim land and expand cultivation, and British officials invited them to settle in the Jangal mahals.

(ii) Having failed to subdue the Paharias and transform them into settled agriculturists, the British turned to the Santhals. They were proposed to reach and settle in the Rajmahal hills. The Paharias refused to cut forests, resisted touching the plough, and continued to be turbulent.

(iii) The Santhals, appeared to be ideal settlers, clearing forests and ploughing the land with vigour. The Santhals were given land and persuaded to settle in the foothills of Rajmahal. By 1832, a large area of land was demarcated as Damin-i-Koh. This was declared to be the land of the Santhals. They were to live within it, practice plough agriculture and become settled peasants.

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