FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM Why did the government decide to ban shifting cultivation? (1) To grow trees for railway timber (2) When a forest was burnt, there was the danger of destroying valuable timber (3) Difficulties for the government to calculate taxes (4) All the above reasons
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| B. | Option 2 |
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| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM Wooden planks lay across railway tracks to hold these tracks in a position are called: (1) Beams (2) Sleepers (3) Rail fasteners (4) none of these
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| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM Forests consisting of which type of trees were preferred by the Forest Department? (1) Forests having trees which provided fuel, fodder and leaves (2) Forests having soft wood (3) Forests having trees suitable for building ships and railways
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM Which of the following was the most essential for the colonial trade and movement of goods? (1) Roadways (2) Railways (3) Airways (4) River ways
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| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM What was the system of ‘blandongdiensten’? (1) A system of education (2) Industrialisation (3) First imposition of rent on land and then exemption (4) None of the above
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| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM What was the policy followed by the British in India towards forests during the First and the Seco nd World Wars? (1) The forest department cut trees freely to meet British war needs (2) Cutting of trees was strictly prohibited for everyone, including the British (3) More and more trees were planted to give employment to Indians (4) None of the above
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| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM Which of the following is a community of skilled forest cutters? (1) Maasais of Africa (2) Mundas of Chotanagpur (3) Gonds of Orissa (4) Kalangs of Java
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| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 4 Solution : -. |
FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM Where did the Dutch start forest management in Indonesia? (1) Java (2) Sumatra (3) Bali (4) None of the above
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| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 1 Solution : -. |
FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM Which of the following is a commercial crop? (1) Rice (2) Wheat (3) Cotton (4) Maize
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| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
