Question

what were the similarities between colonial management of the forests in Bastar and Java​

Answer 1

Explanation:

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Answer 2

The similarities between colonial management of forests in Bastar and in Java are as follows:

Colonial management in Bastar:

(i) In 1905, the colonial government proposed to reserve two third of the forest, stop shifting cultivation, hunting and collection of forest produce.

(ii) The villagers were suffering from increased rents and demand for free labour and goods by colonial officials.

(iii) In the reserved forest, the villagers could stay in the forest and had to work free for the forest department and help them in cutting in transporting trees and protecting them from forest fires. They are called forest villages.

Colonial management in Java:

(i) In Java, villagers were punished for grazing cattle, transporting goods without permit or travelling on forest roads.

(ii) The Dutch needed labour to cut trees, transport logs and prepare sleepers. They introduced the blandongdiesten system. According to this system, they first introduced rents on land cultivated in the forest and then some villages were exempted from paying rent, if they worked collectively to provide free labour and buffaloes for cutting and transporting timber. It was similar to 'forest villages'.