Question

Why colonial government put an effort to understand the India's ancient past?

Answer 1

Answer:

Shifting cultivation is a practice which begins with clearing a patch of land . Britishers feared that if this continued it may affect the forests and can force them to run of of these natural resources and we know it quite well that Britishers needed forest wood for a number of reasons like building ships and exporting . It was also the time when railway intensified . Britishers paid much attention on railways for which a large number of sleepers were needed and again , sleepers are only obtained from trees