Even after __________, the same practice of keeping people out of the forests and reserving them for industrial use continued in Bastar.

In the colonial period, cultivation expanded rapidly because

By the ________________ search parties were sent to explore the forest resources of India.

In India the British first encouraged the production of __________________.

Between 1700 and 1995 ___________ square kilometer of forest was cleared for industrial uses.

Dutch wanted timber from Java to build __________.

In Java, just before the  __________ occupied the region, the Dutch followed a 'scorched earth' policy.

The cluster of villages of Bastar is called ______________.

The villages which worked free for the forest department were called___________.

The Indian Forest Act, 1865 amended in the year ________  divided Forests into three categories.