As population and demand for food increased, peasants extended the boundaries of ____________.
cultivation
houses
playgrounds
efficies
Large areas of natural forests were cleared to make way for tea, coffee and _______plantations.
Cardamom
Pepper
Rubber
Coconut
1860s, the railway network expanded rapidly. In the year __________ about 25,500 kms of track had been laid.
1898
1900
1890
1950
In a major victory for the rebels, work on ______________ was temporarily suspended.
reservation
capturing
cutting trees
burning forest
As in India, the need to manage forests for ship building and railway led to the introduction of a _____________in Java also.
railway service
transport service
forest service
fire service
The Maria and Muria Gonds, Dhurwas, Bhatras and Halbas are different communities in _______.
Santhal Parganas
Chhotanagpur
Bastar
Nethanar
In India the British first encouraged the production of __________________.
Railway tracks
forests
palaces
commercial crops
_______________are people who do not live in one place but move from one area to another to earn their living.
Barbarians
Nomads
travellers
tourists
In Java, just before the __________ occupied the region, the Dutch followed a 'scorched earth' policy.
Chinese
Japanese
British
French
In 1910, mango boughs, a lump of earth, chillies and arrows, began circulating between villages. These were actually, _________ inviting villagers to rebel against the British.
messages
rituals
gifts
none of these