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UPSC CDS Indian History — practice questions — page 18

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The Gaddi shepherds, who summer in Lahul and Spiti, belong to:Read the answer and worked solution →Gujjar cattle herders of Garhwal and Kumaon winter in the dry forests of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Dhangars, numbering about 467,000 in the early twentieth century, were pastoralists of:Read the answer and worked solution →After harvesting bajra in October, Dhangar shepherds marched west to the:Read the answer and worked solution →In Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, which community herded cattle on the dry plateau?Read the answer and worked solution →The Raikas, who combined cultivation with camel and sheep herding, lived in the deserts of:Read the answer and worked solution →A Maru Raika camel herders' settlement is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →The Maldhari herders have their villages in the:Read the answer and worked solution →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 →

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The Gaddi shepherds, who summer in Lahul and Spiti, belong to:

  1. Sikkim mountains
  2. Himachal Pradesh
  3. Jammu and Kashmir
  4. Uttarakhand hills
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Correct answer: B. Himachal Pradesh

1. They winter in Siwalik scrub forests. 2. The Gaddis are from Himachal Pradesh. 3. They shear sheep on the way down in September. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 5, Pastoralists in the Modern World._

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Gujjar cattle herders of Garhwal and Kumaon winter in the dry forests of the:

  1. Konkan
  2. Thar
  3. Bhabar
  4. Bugyal
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Correct answer: C. Bhabar

1. In summer they climb to the bugyals. 2. The bhabar is the dry forested foothill belt. 3. Many came from Jammu in the 1800s. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 5, Pastoralists in the Modern World._

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Dhangars, numbering about 467,000 in the early twentieth century, were pastoralists of:

  1. Karnataka
  2. Rajasthan
  3. Punjab state
  4. Maharashtra
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Correct answer: D. Maharashtra

1. Most were shepherds and some blanket weavers. 2. The Dhangars belong to Maharashtra. 3. They moved from the plateau to the Konkan in October. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 5, Pastoralists in the Modern World._

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