Question
Discuss the regulation of trade by the government with the coming of the British.
Solution
With the coming of the British, trade was completely regulated by the government:
(i)The British government gave many large European trading firms the sole right to trade in the forest products of particular areas.
(ii)Grazing and hunting by local people were restricted. In the process, many pastoralist and nomadic communities like the Korava, Karacha and Yerukula of the Madras Presidency lost their livelihoods.
(iii)Some of them began to be called ‘criminal tribes’, and were forced to work instead in factories, mines and plantations, under government supervision.
