Question 2 - MCQ Questions (1 Mark) - Chapter 4 Class 9 History - Forest Society and Colonialism - History

Name the British Administrator who killed 400 Tigers during his tenure in India.

(a) George Yule

(b) George Yal

(c) Lord Cornwallis

(d) Lord Clive

Answer:

Explanation:

• While the forest laws deprived people of their customary rights to hunt, hunting of big game became a sport.
  
  
•  Under colonial rule, the s cale of hunting increased to such an extent that various species became almost extinct.
  
  
• The Maharaja of Sarguja alone shot 1,157 tigers and 2,000 leopards up to 1957. A British administrator, George Yule, killed 400 tigers. Initially, certain areas of forests were reserved for hunting.

So, the option (a) is correct.