WORLD HISTORY

COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM

COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What were the best forests called?
A
Protected forests
B
Village forests
C
Reserved forests
D
Unreserved forests
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -This Act classified the forests into three –protected forests, reserved forests, and village forests. The best forests were called ‘reserved forests’. Villagers are not allowed to take anything from these forests, even for their own use.

Detailed explanation-2: -These are the forests, which enjoy judicial fortification based on legitimate systems. These are the protected forests with the natural habitat exhibiting a high degree of protection from any kind of poaching and hunting.

Detailed explanation-3: -Forest acts a few forests producing deodar or sal trees were declared Reserved Forests. These trees were considered valuable timber by the British. So, pastoralists were not allowed to enter these reserved forests.

Detailed explanation-4: -Reserved forests are the protected forests with the natural habitat that has high degree of protection from any kind of hunting and poaching.

Detailed explanation-5: -In reserved forests, activities like lumbering, grazing and hunting are banned whereas in protected forests, the rights to all these activities are given to local communities. There is no difference between the two forests. Reserved forests are also known as protected forests.

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