What was the ideological shift in colonial forest policy?

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

Colonial rulers increasingly viewed forests not as sources of livelihood and customary rights for local communities, but as state-controlled sources of timber and revenue. This idea led to tighter state control and restrictions on many traditional forest uses. Option A describes the community-centred view that colonial policy displaced. Exam tip: remember the shift as one from community rights to state-controlled timber and revenue.