Question

what role did the british palnters play in displacing tribals from their homes

Answer 1

Displacement does more than efface identities and disrupt livelihoods, it can reduce life expectancy, finds a DNA study of a tribal community relocated from Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary.

Around 8,000 Sahariya tribal people were moved out of their ancestral homes in Kuno in 1998-2002 to make space for Asiatic lions brought in from Gujarat. The families suffered “acute stress” as they coped with their radically changed life in unfamiliar, semi-urbanized surroundings 10 km away, says a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Answer 2

The British through forest laws, restricted grazing, banned entry of villagers and tribes to reserved forests. It lead to a loss of customary rights.

The late 18th and early 19th century were a decisive period for the British rule in the Indian sub-continent. When the British were keen to expand ...