Question

What were the motives of the British
that made them interfere in the lives of
the tribals?
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Answer 1

These are some points that comes to my mind.

- Britishers wanted to extract as much revenue as they could from the regions occupied by them. So they wished to extract high amount of tax from the peasants through Revenue contractors.

- The Britishers wanted to establish their monopoly over the commercially valuable products from the forest like teak, ivory, sandalwood, ironwood etc . Because the tribal people depended on the forest it was inevitable for the Britishers to have a conflict with them.

- The tribal people were less educated. It was easier on the part of the Britishers to convert them into Christians by offering them a little money. Missionary activities were in large scale in these tribal areas.

- To make quick profit the Britishers wanted to displace the tribes from their lands and declare them government property. Britishers also introduced money lending system in these areas. If the tribal people were to stay there they had to work as bonded laborers.

Answer 2

Answer:

The motives of the British that made the interfere in the lives of the tribals are the following reasons :-

• The British occupied areas belonging to the tribal people for Timber and other agriculture produce. They labelled these as reserve forest and banished tribals from leaving their. Hence, there was no one left to look after them.
• After banishing the tribals from the forest, they British faced a scarcity of cheap labour. Then they establish forest villages under which Jhum cultivator could own small pots of forest land to cultivate, provided they agreed to maintain this forest areas and pay revenue on time.
• The few who agreed to cultivate were forced to grow Cash crop for the British.
• The tribal chiefs and the tribals were forced to pay revenue which only helped to fill the treasury of the British and did not benefit the tribals.

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