History
Colonial Rule and Pastoral Life
Practice questions
What step could pastoralists take when grazing tax increased?What was the most serious effect of the Criminal Tribes Act on nomadic communities?Why was the colonial government uncomfortable with nomadic pastoralists?What was the purpose of keeping communities in notified places under the Criminal Tribes Act?What was the combined effect of cultivation expansion and forest reservation on pastoralists?Why did overgrazing increase on the remaining pastures?How did colonial policies change pastoralists' seasonal mobility?Why can it be said that forest laws affected pastoralists' daily life?Why were settled cultivators more convenient for the colonial state than nomadic pastoralists?Why was converting pasture into cultivation under Wasteland Rules a double problem for pastoralists?How was colonial control over pastoralists administrative as well as economic?What does the shift from contractors to direct government collection of grazing tax show?What could be the effect of rising tax and shrinking pastures on pastoral herds?Which adaptation strategy might pastoralists have adopted after new restrictions?Why did pastoralists have to search for new work under colonial rule?Which policy directly linked nomadic life with suspicion and surveillance?How did colonial policies affect the social image of pastoralists?What was the combined meaning of forest reservation and the pass system?Why was the importance of forests for pastoralists not limited to grazing?For the British government, pastoralists' mobility was linked with which administrative problem?