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Project

Write in your notebook a dialogue between a colonial forester and an adivasi discussing the issues of
hunting in the forest, deforestation, and pollution, etc. and present it before your class.

Assertion-Reason Type Questions

Each question consists of two statements, namely, Assertion (A) and Reason (R). For selecting the correct
answer, use the following code:
a. Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).

b. Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true, but Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
c. Assertion (A) is true and Reason (R) is false.

d. Assertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true.
1. A: After the Forest Act was enacted in 1865, it was amended twice, once in 1878 and then in 1927.

R: The 1878 Act divided forests into three categories: reserved, protected, and village forests.
2. A: In India, hunting of tigers and other animals had been part of the culture of the court and nobility
for centuries.

R: But under colonial rule, the scale of hunting decreased to such an extent that various species
became almost extinct.
3. A: In 1890s, Surontiko Samin a Teak Forest Villager began questioning state ownership of the forest.

R: He agreed that the state had created the wind, water, earth, and wood, so it could own it.
4. A: Forest Management had a great impact on shifting cultivators.

R: This type of cultivation also made difficult for the government to calculate taxes.

Case Study-based Questions

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

Baigas, a forest community of Central India, petitioned the government:

“We daily starve, having had no food grain in our possession. The only wealth we possess is our axe.
We have no clothes to cover our body with, but we pass cold nights by the fireside. We are now dying
for want of food. We cannot go elsewhere. What fault have we done that the government does not
take care of us? Prisoners are supplied with ample food in jail. A cultivator of the grass in not deprived
of his holding, but the government does not give us our rights, even though we have lived here for
generations.”
1. Who are the starving people?

2. Why are they starving?

3. Who is at fault for this?
4. Can you suggest a solution for their issue?

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