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What was the most important ideological change in colonial deforestation?

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Correct answer: Seeing forests less as community life and more as resource and revenue

Colonial rule increasingly treated forests not as spaces supporting community life and customary livelihoods, but as sources of timber, railway sleepers and state revenue. This ideology encouraged tighter state control over forests and restrictions on many traditional forest rights. Option B is the closest distractor, but it reflects community-based customary use rather than colonial policy. Exam tip: link colonial deforestation with state control and the demand for timber or revenue.

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Colonial ForestryDeforestationForest SocietyState ControlTimber RevenueHistory Class 9Why Deforestation?Why Deforestation

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