Question:
What was Samin's Movement?
Answer:
Samin of Randublatung village (a teak forest village) questioned the state ownership of forests. A widespread movement spread. They protested by lying on the ground when the Dutch came to survey it and refusing to pay taxes and perform labour.
Forest Society and Colonialism
Q 1.
About how much percentage of the world's total forest area was cleared between 1700 and 1995?
Q 2.
In which year the Indian Forest Service was set up?
Q 3.
During the colonial period, the British directly encouraged the production of which of these crops?
Q 4.
Who were '
Kalangs' of Java?
Q 5.
Who were the colonial power in Indonesia?
Q 6.
Why was shifting cultivation banned by the Government in India?
Q 7.
Who wrote the book 'The Forests of India' in the year 1923?
Q 8.
What was the system of '
blandongdiensten'?
Q 9.
What is deforestation?
Q 10.
What was Samin's Movement?
Q 11.
How was the colonial management of forests in Bastar similar to that of Java?
Q 12.
What is shifting agriculture? Why was it regarded as harmful by the British?
Q 13.
Differentiate between the customary practice of hunting and hunting as a sport in India, after the Forest Acts were passed.
Q 14.
In which year the Baster rebellion took place?
Q 15.
Describe scientific forestry.
Q 16.
Why was the railway network spread by the British in India from 1850s onwards? Why was there a need for forest timber spread for railways?
Q 17.
The British believed that by killing dangerous animals, the British would civilise India. What did they do to encourage these killings?
Q 18.
Why did the people of Bastar rise in revolt against the British? Explain.
Q 19.
Describe four provisions of the Forest Act of 1878.
Q 20.
Why is deforestation considered harmful?
Q 21.
What did Dietrich Brandis suggest for the improvement of forests in India?
Q 22.
How did the American writer Richard Harding justify the conquest of Honduras in Central America?
Q 23.
Explain why did the Dutch adopt the 'scorched earth policy' during the war.
