Question

What was the purpose to start the ‘Rat Hunt’ programme by the French in Vietnam in 1902? How the purpose got defeated?​

Answer 1

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The purpose of rat hunt was finally defeated.

The French hired Vietnamese workers to catch the rats and paid them for the same. This proved a failed attempt.

Vietnamese befooled the government by just showing the tail and allowing the rate to go free.

They took it as a way to earn a profit. Defeated by the resistance of the weak, the French were forced to scrap the bounty programme.

Answer 2

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The rate hunt was started in 1902 in Hanoi to check the spread of plague in the city. Under this workers were asked to catch rats. It was contradictory in the civilising mission because under the civilising mission the French claimed that they were bringing modem civilisation to the Vietnamese but under rat hunt mission they asked locals to enter sewers to catch rat for them