Practice What Happened To The Shifting Cultivators? (4.2.2) - Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of a Golden Age

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Question 1.
What is jhum cultivation?
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Think about how farmers would traditionally move from one field to another.
Question 2.
Who were the dikus?
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Consider who the tribal people blamed for their financial struggles.
3Question 3.
What was jhum cultivation?
- A method of fixed farming
- A type of shifting agriculture
- A practice of ranching
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Remember how farmers might change locations to farm.
4Question 4.
True or False: Dikus are considered beneficial to the tribal communities.
- True
- False
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Consider how the tribal people viewed outsiders.
Question 5.
Critically assess how British policies altered the economic structure of tribal societies during the colonial period.
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Consider both immediate and long-term effects on their economies.
Question 6.
What lessons can modern societies learn from the resistance movements of shifting cultivators in response to colonial oppression?
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Think about current movements and their parallels with historical resistance.

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