What strategy of colonial rule becomes clear by studying tax and pass systems together?

Extracting revenue and monitoring movement

The correct answer is A because the two systems reveal different but connected forms of colonial control. Taxes extracted money or other resources from pastoral communities, while passes regulated where people could move, graze animals, or enter particular areas. Together, these measures show that the colonial state sought both revenue and administrative surveillance. Option B is opposite to the restrictive reality, since pastoralists often lost freedom of movement. Option C describes a possible pastoral concern, not a colonial strategy, and option D refers to forest administration rather than the combined purpose of taxes and passes. The governing concept is the economic and political control of mobile communities.

This is a Class 9 History question. Chapter: Pastoralists in the Modern World. Topic: Colonial Rule and Pastoral Life.