OBJECTIVE FORESTRY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the medieval period, Adivasi and nomadic communities like the Banjaras traded animals like elephants and other commodities like hides, horns, silk cocoons, ivory, bamboo, spices, fibres, grasses, gums and resins.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer. Answer: In India, the trade in forest products was not new. From the medieval period onwards, we have records of adivasi communities trading elephants and other goods like hides, horns, silk cocoons, ivory, bamboo, spices, fibres, grasses, gums and resins through nomadic communities like the Banjaras.

Detailed explanation-3: -Besides Odisha, this tribe is found in many other States of India with different social and constitutional status. They have been notified as Scheduled Caste in Himachal Pradesh as Banjara, in Chandigarh, Haryana and Punjab as Bhanjara and in Karnataka as Banjara, Lambani.