COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Question
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Forced villagers to cut trees as per the new forest laws
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Exempting villagers from rent if they worked collectively to provide free labour and buffalos for cutting and transporting timber
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Dutch imposed rents on land being cultivated in the forest and then exempted some villages from these rents if they worked collectively to provide free labour and buffaloes for cutting and transporting timber. This was known as Blandongdiensten system.
Detailed explanation-2: -The forest law known as the Blandongdiensten System was introduced by the Dutch in Java. But commercial necessity forced the Dutch authority to make amendments in laws. So, some villages were exempted from rent. Later, in place of rent exemption, villagers were given small wages.
Detailed explanation-3: -(b) What lesson/values do you learn from this cruel system? Imposing of rents on the lands which were a cultivated in the forests. Exemption to some villages under certain. Collective work by the villagers to provide free labour and buffaloes for cutting and transporting timber.