Tribal Societies and Colonial Rule

Tribal Societies and Colonial Rule

This topic examines how tribal societies in India lived before colonial rule — through shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering, forest produce, herding and settled cultivation — and how colonial policies transformed…

• Tribal societies depended on five main sources of livelihood: shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering, forest produce, herding animals a…
• Shifting cultivation involved clearing a forest patch, farming it for a few years, then moving to a new patch.
• Forests supplied timber, fuel, honey, wax, gum, lac, medicinal herbs and fruits to tribal families.

~15 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app