Question

4.) Why were tribal communities made to surrender large tracts of forest lands by the British?
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Answer 1

Answer:The British wanted tribal groups to settle down and become peasant cultivators, because as settled peasants they were easier to control and administer. The British also wanted a regular revenue source for the state.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

The English East India Company ploughed over huge areas of tribally-cultivated land. Tribal members who lacked land were forced to work as wage labourers and cultivate commercial crops. 

Explanation:

• These tribes were given extremely meagre salaries
• The tribal members opposed losing their land because they saw themselves as the rightful owners of the area they had been farming for millennia. 
• Peasants who had settled down were simpler to manage and control than those who were always on the road. 
• The colonial forest rules sparked a backlash among numerous ethnic groups. 
• Even ignored the new laws, carried on with illegal behaviour, and occasionally they openly rebelled. 

Such rebellions include Songram Sangma's uprising in Assam in 1906 and the Central Provinces' forest satyagraha inthe 1930s.

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