Question

discuss the cause of deforestation in India during the Colonial rule

Answer 1

The British considered forest as wildernesses which must be brought under the cultivation to enhance the income of the state. Forests are destroyed to supply sleepers for railways and further expand areas under railways.


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Answer 2

reasons are

british only supported commercial crops like coffee jute sugar etc

brithish thought forest are a sight of wilderness and the land that is occupied by forest should be used for cultivation

they wanted to grow timber for railway purposes