imagine that you are a historian wanting to find out about how agriculture changed in a remote tribal area after independence. List the different ways in which you would find information on this
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Even in villages, the power structure, cultural values, peer- group, family structure, the bondage of castes, marriage etc. are transformed transforming the economic values, according to the world economy.
• Land alienation: lands Lands are mortgaged by tribal.
• Indebtedness: the The trap of moneylenders with high interest.
• Bonded labour: contracts Contracts to repay debts.
• Difficulty in transfer with technology: not Not equipped to shifting cultivation.
To find out about how agriculture changed in a remote tribal area after independence I will have to use the traditional methods of gathering information. These include:
1. Observation: This means observing the current condition and comparing with the data available for the time before independence.
2. Interviews: This means I will have to interview the people who lived before independence so that I can get first hand information.
3. Questionnaires: I will have to formulate questionnaires to help me gather the information I need.
4. Questioning: This involves questions farmers and all involved parties to give the side of their story.
5. Study of existing forms, organizational documents and reports: This is also another way of gathering the information because the journals, reports etc will provide data that had been gathered at that time.
Therefore these are some of the ways I would gather information