Question

list five reasons for the deputation of forest during Colonial rule

Answer 1

5 reasons for the reputation of the forest during Colonial rule are

#1. Britishers promoted commercial crops like jute sugar white cotton etc due to which forest word cleared
#2. sleepers of the railway track were in the demand hence Britishers started to cut forest
#3.plantation was encouraged
#4. in order to fulfill the timber need of Royal Navy forest word cleared out in India
#5. Britishers saw the forest as the sign of wilderness hence they cleared it for the urbanization and industrialisation

Answer 2

five causes of deforestation in India during the colonial rule:-

1) The British considered forests as wilderness which must be brought under cultivation to enhance the income of the state. Thus, large tracts of forest land were cleared for cultivating land.

2) Due to high demand, forest in Britain were disappearing. This created a problem for British Royal Navy as wood as required to build ships. The British then started exploring Indian forests on a massive scale.

3) Forests were destroyed to supply sleepers for railways and to further expand areas under railways.

4) The colonial government thought forests as unproductive and hence cleared them for building dams and laying down cities.

5) Cash crops were expected to bring huge revenues. So large areas of natural forests were cleared to make way for tea, coffee and rubber plantation

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