🌲 Forest Society and Colonialism

History Chapter 4 | Grade 9 Social Science

🌟 Chapter Overview

This chapter discusses the growth of industries and urban centres, ships and railways, and the new demand on forests for timber and other forest products.

Key Topics:

Why Deforestation?
The Rise of Commercial Forestry
Rebellion in the Forest
Forest Transformations in Java

📚 Lesson Content

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Focus Areas:

Scientific Forestry and its impact.
Life of forest dwellers.
Colonial control over forests.

🧠 Practice Questions

Discuss how the changes in forest management in the colonial period affected different groups of people.
What was scientific forestry?
Why did the colonial government clear forests?

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