Which skilled forest-cutter community of Java attacked a Dutch fort at Joana in 1770?
AKalangs
BSaminists
CMaasai
DBaigas
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Kalangs
1. Six thousand Kalang families were split between two kingdoms in 1755.
2. The Kalangs resisted the Dutch in 1770.
3. The uprising was suppressed.
_Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 4, Forest Society and Colonialism._
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