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    Deforestation in India occurred for several reasons during colonial rule, including the expansion of agricultural land to meet growing food demands, the encouragement of cash crop production by British authorities, and the large-scale logging of trees for railway construction. Populations increased in the 1600s, leading peasants to clear more forest land for cultivation, while British colonizers sought to make forest areas more productive for crops. Additionally, vast numbers of trees were felled from Indian forests to supply timber for building and fueling Britain's expanding railway network, with over 35,000 trees cut annually just in the Madras presidency for railway construction and operation.

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    Deforestation in India occurred for several reasons during colonial rule, including the expansion of agricultural land to meet growing food demands, the encouragement of cash crop production by British authorities, and the large-scale logging of trees for railway construction. Populations increased in the 1600s, leading peasants to clear more forest land for cultivation, while British colonizers sought to make forest areas more productive for crops. Additionally, vast numbers of trees were felled from Indian forests to supply timber for building and fueling Britain's expanding railway network, with over 35,000 trees cut annually just in the Madras presidency for railway construction and operation.

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    Deforestation in India occurred for several reasons during colonial rule, including the expansion of agricultural land to meet growing food demands, the encouragement of cash crop production by British authorities, and the large-scale logging of trees for railway construction. Populations increased in the 1600s, leading peasants to clear more forest land for cultivation, while British colonizers sought to make forest areas more productive for crops. Additionally, vast numbers of trees were felled from Indian forests to supply timber for building and fueling Britain's expanding railway network, with over 35,000 trees cut annually just in the Madras presidency for railway construction and operation.

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    Deforestation in India occurred for several reasons during colonial rule, including the expansion of agricultural land to meet growing food demands, the encouragement of cash crop production by British authorities, and the large-scale logging of trees for railway construction. Populations increased in the 1600s, leading peasants to clear more forest land for cultivation, while British colonizers sought to make forest areas more productive for crops. Additionally, vast numbers of trees were felled from Indian forests to supply timber for building and fueling Britain's expanding railway network, with over 35,000 trees cut annually just in the Madras presidency for railway construction and operation.

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    Forest society and

    colonialism
    What is deforestration ?
    The disappearance of forests is referred as
    deforestration.
    Why deforestration happened in india?
    reformation of land:
    *in 1600,population was increased and the
    demand for food went up,peasants extended
    the boundaries of cultivation,clearing forests
    and breaking land.
    *britishers encouraged the production of
    jute,sugar, and wheat.
    *colonial state thought the forest were
    unproductive,so they brought it under
    cultivation so that the land could grow
    agricultural products and enhance the income
    of state.
    sleepers for the railway track:
    *oak forests were disappearing from
    england.this created problem of timber for the
    royal navy.so the britishers explore the forest

    resources of india.trees were being felled and


    exported from india.
    *to run engines,wood was needed as fuel,and
    to lay railway lines sleepers were needed to
    hold the tracks together.
    *in 1890,25,500 km of track had been laid,in
    1946,the track had increased over 765,000 km.
    *in the madras presidency alone 35000 trees
    were being cut annually.

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