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To secure cheap labour for cutting sleepers, the Forest Department set up:Read the answer and worked solution →Songram Sangma's revolt against forest laws took place in 1906 in:Read the answer and worked solution →In Hazaribagh, the Santhals reared cocoons and were paid how much per thousand?Read the answer and worked solution →In the 1920s, about what share of miners in the Jharia and Raniganj coal mines were tribals?Read the answer and worked solution →The Santhals rose in revolt in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Warli Revolt of 1940 took place in:Read the answer and worked solution →Birsa was born in the mid-1870s and grew up around the forests of:Read the answer and worked solution →Birsa's vision of a golden age when Mundas lived honestly was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Birsa was arrested for rioting in 1895 and jailed for:Read the answer and worked solution →Birsa's followers raised which flag as the symbol of Birsa Raj?Read the answer and worked solution →Birsa Munda died of cholera in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the tribal groupsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the tribal revoltsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the tribal revolt yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the tribal wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Tribal or outsiderRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the tribal livelihoodsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Tribals and dikus bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The Indian National Congress was founded when 72 delegates met in December 1885 at:Read the answer and worked solution →Which retired British official helped bring Indians together to form the Congress?Read the answer and worked solution →The Arms Act disallowing Indians from possessing arms was passed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1883 bill allowing Indian judges to try Europeans, withdrawn after white protest, was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which early Congress leader wrote Poverty and Un-British Rule in India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Radical leader declared that freedom is my birthright and I shall have it?Read the answer and worked solution →Bengal was partitioned in 1905 by Viceroy:Read the answer and worked solution →In deltaic Andhra the Swadeshi movement was known as the:Read the answer and worked solution →The All India Muslim League was formed in 1906 at:Read the answer and worked solution →Separate electorates for Muslims were conceded by the government in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Congress split between Moderates and Radicals in:Read the answer and worked solution →

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To secure cheap labour for cutting sleepers, the Forest Department set up:

  1. Coal colonies
  2. Forest villages
  3. Labour camps
  4. Tea gardens
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Correct answer: B. Forest villages

1. Jhum cultivators got small plots in return for labour. 2. These were forest villages. 3. The same pattern appeared in Bastar. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 4, Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of a Golden Age._

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Songram Sangma's revolt against forest laws took place in 1906 in:

  1. Malwa
  2. Orissa
  3. Assam
  4. Bastar
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Correct answer: C. Assam

1. Tribes disobeyed colonial forest rules. 2. Songram Sangma rose in Assam. 3. Forest satyagrahas came in the 1930s. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 4, Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of a Golden Age._

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In Hazaribagh, the Santhals reared cocoons and were paid how much per thousand?

  1. Rs 30 to 40
  2. Rs 13 to 14
  3. Rs 8 to 9
  4. Rs 3 to 4
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Correct answer: D. Rs 3 to 4

1. Traders' agents gave loans and collected cocoons. 2. Growers got only Rs 3 to 4 per thousand. 3. Middlemen sold them at five times the price. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 4, Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of a Golden Age._

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