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From the mid-nineteenth century, which Rules handed uncultivated grazing land to select individuals?Read the answer and worked solution →Forests producing valuable timber like deodar and sal were declared:Read the answer and worked solution →The Criminal Tribes Act, which classed many pastoral communities as criminal by birth, was passed in:Read the answer and worked solution →Between the 1850s and 1880s, the right to collect grazing tax was:Read the answer and worked solution →After 1947, the Raikas could no longer graze camels on the banks of the Indus in:Read the answer and worked solution →Over how many Africans depend on some form of pastoral activity today?Read the answer and worked solution →The Maasai cattle herders live mainly in southern Kenya and:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1885, Maasailand was cut in half by a boundary between British Kenya and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Maasai lost about what share of their pre-colonial lands?Read the answer and worked solution →Serengeti National Park was created over how much Maasai grazing land?Read the answer and worked solution →Tanganyika united with Zanzibar to form Tanzania in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Indian pastoralistsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the African herdersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the pastoral datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the pastoral wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Mountain or plateauRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the colonial measuresRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Pastoralists bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The East India Company received its charter of sole right to trade with the East in 1600 from:Read the answer and worked solution →Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India in:Read the answer and worked solution →The first English factory in Bengal was set up on the banks of the Hugli in:Read the answer and worked solution →Nawab Sirajuddaulah marched with 30,000 soldiers to the English factory at:Read the answer and worked solution →Robert Clive defeated Sirajuddaulah at Plassey in:Read the answer and worked solution →Whose forces never fought at Plassey, having been promised the nawabship by Clive?Read the answer and worked solution →Mir Qasim was defeated by the Company at Buxar in:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1765 the Mughal emperor appointed the Company as Diwan of the provinces of:Read the answer and worked solution →Company officials who returned to Britain flaunting Indian wealth were mocked as:Read the answer and worked solution →Under Governor-General Richard Wellesley, the Nawab of Awadh surrendered half his territory in:Read the answer and worked solution →Tipu Sultan ruled Mysore from 1782 to:Read the answer and worked solution →

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From the mid-nineteenth century, which Rules handed uncultivated grazing land to select individuals?

  1. Tribal Rules
  2. Waste Land Rules
  3. Forest Rules
  4. Grazing Rules
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Correct answer: B. Waste Land Rules

1. Colonial officials saw uncultivated land as waste. 2. The Waste Land Rules took over grazing tracts. 3. Pastures declined as cultivation grew. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 5, Pastoralists in the Modern World._

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Forests producing valuable timber like deodar and sal were declared:

  1. Village
  2. Open use
  3. Reserved
  4. Protected
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Correct answer: C. Reserved

1. No pastoralist could enter them. 2. They were declared Reserved. 3. Protected forests allowed limited grazing by permit. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 5, Pastoralists in the Modern World._

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The Criminal Tribes Act, which classed many pastoral communities as criminal by birth, was passed in:

  1. 1857
  2. 1885
  3. 1920
  4. 1871
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Correct answer: D. 1871

1. The British distrusted nomadic people. 2. The Act came in 1871. 3. Such communities had to live in notified villages. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 5, Pastoralists in the Modern World._

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