Question

Baigas
are
a
forest
community
Central
India
.
In
1892
,
after
shifting
cultivation
was
stopped
,
the
foodgrain
in
our
possession
.
The
only
petitioned to the government:
"We daily starve, having had no
wealth we possess is our axe. We
have no clothes to cover our body with,
but we pass cold nights by the
fireside. We are now dying for want of
food. We cannot go elsewhere. What
fault have we done that the
government does not take care of us?
Prisoners are supplied with ample food
in jail. A cultivator of the grass is not
deprived of his holding, but the
government does not give us our right
who have lived here for generations
past.'
Verrier Elwin (1939), cited in Madhar
Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, This
Fissured Land: An Ecological History
ndia

explain please!!​

Answer 1

Answer:

past.'

Verrier Elwin (1939), cited in Madhar

Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, This

Fissured Land: An Ecological History

ndia