Muft Shiksha
Update

Muft Shiksha™ एक 100% Free Education Portal है 🇮🇳, जिसका उद्देश्य Class 9–12 के हर विद्यार्थी तक High-Quality Education को पूरी तरह मुफ्त पहुँचाना है। 🇮🇳 हम मानते हैं कि अच्छी शिक्षा किसी student की आर्थिक स्थिति पर निर्भर नहीं होनी चाहिए। 🇮🇳 हर विद्यार्थी को वही Quality Study Material, MCQs, Quizzes, Exam Preparation, Concept-Based Learning और Bilingual Support मिलना चाहिए, जो आमतौर पर महंगी Coaching या Premium Platforms में मिलता है। Muft Shiksha™ 🇮🇳 इसी सोच के साथ बनाया गया है

Subjects

History

Why Deforestation?

वनों की कटाई क्यों?

In this Class 9 History topic from “Forest Society and Colonialism,” students examine why forests were cleared and how colonial policies transformed forest use. They learn how railways, shipbuilding, commercial timber, plantations and expanding agriculture increased demand for wood and land. The topic also explores the effects on forest communities, shifting cultivators and pastoralists, including restrictions on customary rights, loss of livelihoods and resistance to state control. It helps students connect deforestation with colonial economic interests and social change.

Practice questions

Why is the demand for railway sleepers considered a major cause of deforestation?Why did Indian forests become an imperial resource for the British?Why did promotion of settled cultivation put pressure on shifting cultivation?Why did deforestation affect both environment and society?What was common between British shipbuilding and railway expansion?Which aim of colonial rule is clear from the creation of forest departments?Why was cultivable land considered more useful than forest by the colonial government?Which statement correctly explains an economic cause of deforestation in the colonial period?What change in land use happened when forests were converted into plantations?Why can soil erosion increase due to deforestation?Why was local grazing affected due to deforestation?Why did expansion of new settlements and towns put pressure on forests?Which option shows a correct group of colonial causes of deforestation?Why did colonial rule use contractors for cutting timber from forests?Why did deforestation threaten biodiversity?Which statement clarifies the link between colonial revenue policy and deforestation?Why did the expansion of railways increase deforestation in colonial India?How did market oriented plantations change traditional forest use?Why would it be wrong to call colonial forest control only conservation?How can the role of railways in deforestation be linked with infrastructure?