World History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 7)

The new India-Pakistan border stopped the Raikas from crossing into Sindh to graze camels on the Indus banks, forcing them to find new pastures, including in Haryana.

The 1871 Act classified many nomadic communities as Criminal Tribes, deemed criminal by birth, and confined them to notified village settlements.

From the mid-nineteenth century, Waste Land Rules took over uncultivated lands, often grazing tracts, and gave them to select individuals to cultivate.

After the kharif harvest, Dhangar flocks manured the fields and fed on stubble, while Konkani peasants gave the shepherds rice to take back to the plateau.

Several Bakarwal households came together to form a kafila for their annual journey across the Pir Panjal passes into Kashmir.

Governments have recognised that keeping forest communities away from forests caused repeated conflict, shifting focus toward involving local people in conservation.

Just before the Japanese occupied the region, the Dutch followed a scorched-earth policy, destroying sawmills and burning teak logs to deny them to Japan.

Around 1890, Samin argued that since the state did not create natural resources like wind, water, and wood, it had no right to claim ownership of the forest.

Under blandongdiensten, the Dutch exempted villages from land rent if they provided free labour and buffaloes for cutting and transporting timber.

The Kalangs were a community of skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators, so valuable that 6,000 of their families were divided between two kingdoms in 1755.

Gandhi wrote his first letter to Hitler in July 1939, calling him the one person who could prevent a war.

Ten-year-olds entered the Jungvolk, and at 14, all boys had to join the Hitler Youth organisation itself.

Nazis never used the word ‘kill’ in official communications, instead using euphemisms like ‘final solution,’ ‘special treatment,’ and ‘evacuation.’

Lebensraum, or ‘living space,’ was Hitler’s belief that Germany needed new territories for settlement, especially to the east.

In 1928, the Nazi Party won just 2.6 percent of the Reichstag vote, before becoming the largest party with 37 percent by 1932.

After three months of suppression, the British temporarily suspended reservation and cut the planned reserved area to roughly half. Gunda Dhur was never captured.

In 1905, the government proposed reserving two-thirds of Bastar’s forest and banning shifting cultivation, hunting, and forest produce collection, sparking the revolt.

European foresters viewed shifting cultivation as destructive to timber growth, and it also made it harder for the government to assess taxes.

The 1878 Act created reserved forests (fully off-limits to villagers), protected forests, and village forests, with the best timber kept as reserved.

Brandis was invited to introduce a scientific system of forest management, becoming India’s first Inspector General of Forests in 1864.

The Four Asian Tigers are Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Japan industrialised earlier and is not counted among them.

The war ended with a 1953 armistice, not a peace treaty. North and South Korea remain technically at war to this day.

Taiwan’s government bought land from large landlords and sold it cheaply to tenant farmers, raising output and spreading income evenly.

When Japan surrendered in 1945, Soviet troops occupied the north and American troops the south, splitting Korea at the 38th parallel.

Chiang Kai-shek’s Guomindang lost the civil war to Mao’s Communists in 1949 and fled to Taiwan, taking much of China’s gold reserves with them.