CBSE Questions for Class 9 History Forest Society And Colonialism Quiz 2 - MCQExams.com

Forests having trees suitable for building ships and railways were preferred by the Forest Department. The wood for these sleepers was cut from the forests in the Himalayan and Terai regions. Wood was also cut and sold in huge quantities for buildings, mines and ships. This work was done by workers hired by timber traders and forest contractors.

In 1770, the Kalangs resisted by attacking a Dutch fort at Joana, but their revolt was brutally suppressed.

He was a German expert, who was called for advice by the Britishers and was made the first Inspector General of Forests in India.

Brandis formulated new forest rule. Brandis set up the Indian Forest Service in 1864 and helped formulate the Indian Forest Act of 1865. He founded the Imperial  Forest Research Institute at Dehradun in 1906. He introduced new system scientific  forestry or commercial forestry.

Diversity in forests has been disappearing very quickly. Disappearance of forests is called deforestation. The process of deforestation began many centuries ago, but became more systematic and extensive during the colonial period.

The community of skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators in Java were the Kalangs. They were considered a very important human resource for the land as it was not possible to harvest teak without them.