Forest Society and Colonialism - Lecture 1 Video Lecture - Class 9

hello screens let us start the fourth
chapter of our history of class mine
that is
before a society and the colony ISM :
ISM is the period when the European
countries expand their empire and goes
in different part of the world where
they establish their colony there were
two reasons for that they established
their colonies first because of the raw
material as we know the period was in
insa period installation was there so a
lot of industries were came up and they
need raw material so for that they
establish colonies in different part and
later on when these industries produced
different types of products but and for
example like they produce thousand
shirts but the population of Europe is
one hundred means the production is
extra now what they need market also so
in search of market and raw material is
impure nation established colonies in
different part of the world like in the
Americas Africa Asia and Oceania where
they get there remotely from forests so
how it affects the Society of the forest
the culture of the forest
and how it affect the livelihood of
these people of Africa Asia and new
world that's what we will do in this
chapter so the first we have to do is
the
the advantages of forest let's see that
there are how many advantages of forest
it improves the quality of the
environment which is the major role play
by forest
it modified the local climate where we
see a forest it has to reduce the
temperature of that area and it also
attract the clouds for rainfall so this
is how it helps to make that area more
fertile with more moisture while there
is no forests we see desert in those
areas the reason is that it control soil
erosion also and if we come to the
economic factors of economic advantages
of the forest then it provides
you
it provides livelihood to many
communities which are living in forest
areas all the tribal communities with
rich culture and history
you
it support a variety of industries also
because there are many industries who
get their raw material from forest the
forest add to the floor large quantities
of leaves rings and branches which after
decomposition form the most fertile soil
that is the humans
as I said that it provides industries
wood timber fuel wood for the several
other minor products of the great
economic value also and as I had written
here also that it improved the quality
of environment means they also provide
natural environment for wildlife yes
that is much important that it is the
boom while life before is torn out there
then we cannot find out why life also
play an important role in maintaining
the life-support system and it balance
the ecosystem also so these all are the
advantages of forests so this is all now
we can see that how much forests are
important for human being for earth for
environment but even then why this
colony can this Imperial nation cut
forests why we see deforestation
the disappearance of the forest is
referred to as deforestation this
deforestation process began many
centuries ago but during these Imperial
period means under the colonial rule it
become more systematic and extensive
learn to be improved
as professional increased over the
centuries the
demand for food went up decent extended
their boundaries for cultivations they
cleared forests and breaking new lands
so this is how we see a lot of
destructions of us because of the
increase in population
you
the brittish's also directly encouraged
the production of commercial crops like
jude sugar wheat cotton etc which or
were the raw materials for their
industries and the demand of these crops
increased in the during the speech in
19th century Europe where the food grain
were needed to feed for the growing
upper population the increasing urban
population of Europe and also they need
a lot of raw materials for their
increasing number of industries
you
the colonial state thought that the
forests were totally unproductive and
they were considered to be the wild
earnest that had to be brought under the
civilizations the thing that there is no
use of forest so the best thing is that
to cut the forest and use that area for
growing their raw material so because of
this only we see the data that in
between 1880 to 1920 means during these
40 years 6.7 million hectare of forest
were cut tongue
you
see Poisson that tracks as I said you
get they come here for two reason first
is the raw material second is the market
okay now in India they get raw material
from different part of India so from
their raw metal it comes to Mumbai from
this raw material goes to Europe so for
that they need transportation so because
of that they establish railway lines and
then their productions comes this
production is also distributed in
different parts of India means market
through railway lines only
so for raw material and from market
their lifeline to complete their main
motive is the railway poking out the
topics which we will do here in this
part work first
due to the high demand of oak in England
we see
we see disappearing of forests and
discreet
this created a problem of timber to
supply for the Royal Navy which is
required at a lot for building the ship
so to get the supply of Oh for the ship
industries in brittish's they start
exploring the forests of India on a very
ma massive scale means they cut Indian
forests on a very massive scale and send
all those would all those timber to
inland
and I said because of the spread of the
railways in the 19th in SOI 1850s
created a new demand obviously to run
locomotives would need as a fuel at that
time the railways were made up of the
sleepers the engine they all were made
up of wood timber truly this as a
railway was expanding the demand of the
fuel also becomes very high even if you
see that this is like a railway track
they are connected with the slippers
this LIPA's arm of wood piece so tool a
railway line sleepers for essentials so
that they can hold the track together
and each track if you see that each mile
or Raven track required 760 to 200
slippers just for one mile only so now
we can thought or think that how much
slipper they need four seven six five
zero zero kilometer net drop of railway
track and how much tree they cut for
this
plantations also uh this plantation also
gives a lot of raw material to
brittish's for their industries large
areas of natural resources were also
cleared to make the plantations of
specially tea in India in the eastern
part and also for the coffee and in
South we go then there is rubber
plantation desta Bishop of plantations
to meet the ropes growing need of these
commodities the colonial government took
over the forest and gave vast areas to
the European planted planted planters
the plantation owners at a very cheap
rate and this is how these areas were
enclosed and cleared the whole forest
and they grow plants in these areas of
Tico fear uh birds etc so because of
this plantation business also a large
part of forests were cut down this is
how you see our topic why deforestation
deforestation was happened because of
the land to be in group for agriculture
purpose deforestation happened because
of the establishment of the
transportation and diffusion was
happened because of the plantation also
so this is how we complete the first
part of the chapter
that is the for society and the : ISM I
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