NCERT Important Questions for Class 9 Social Science History Chapter 4
Social Science Class 9 History
Forest Society and Colonialism 4
Important Questions
3/5 Marks Questions
Explain the factors which prompted the Samins to revolt against the Dutch.
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(a) The Saminists laid down on their land when the Dutch surveyors came to reclassify communal and salary lands.
(b) They cut teak despite Dutch efforts to guard the forest.
(c) They refused to pay taxes, fines to accept wages
(d) They refused to leave rented or communal land when their leases expired
(e) Some piled stones on the roads which they had been ordered to build
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(i) The nineteenth century was a turning point in forest management and the forms of state control over teak and non-teak forest of Java.
(ii) It was time when the bureaucrats of the colonial Forest Service drew boundaries between the forest and agricultural land on maps and in the field and established police to restrict people’s acess to trees and other forest products
(iii) The ideology of “scientific” forestry was being imposed by the colonial state and it’s foresters on the local people who were the real owners of these forests.
(iv) With the arrival of outsiders the activities of the local people were declared illegal. To exploit the forest the colonial powers started constructing roads and railways.