Question:
What did Dietrich Brandis suggest for the improvement of forests in India?
Answer:
Dietrich Brandis suggested that a proper system had to be followed. Felling of trees and grazing land had to be protected. Rules about the use of forests should be made. Anyone who broke rules needed to be punished. Brandis set up in 1864 the Indian Forest Service. He also helped to formulate the Indian Forest Act of 1865.
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.
