'Adivasis faced exploitation at the hands of colonial government. In regard to this statement, arrange the following in the correct sequence

(A) Forests were now to be protected for maximising timber production

(B) With this policy, the mainstay of their livelihoods was taken away from adivasis, rendering their lives poorer and more insecure

(C) Denied access to forests and land for cultivation, adivasis were forced to either use the forests illegally or migrate in search of wage labour

(D) From the late 19th century onwards, colonial government reserved most forest tracts for its
own use

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(D), (A), (B), (C)

The correct answer is Option (4) → (D), (A), (B), (C)

Explanation:
1. (D) From the late 19th century onwards, colonial government reserved most forest tracts for its own use.
2. (A) Forests were now to be protected for maximizing timber production.
3. (C) Denied access to forests and land for cultivation, adivasis were forced to either use the forests illegally or migrate in search of wage labor.
4. (B) With this policy, the mainstay of their livelihoods was taken away from adivasis, rendering their lives poorer and more insecure.

In the areas where tribal populations are concentrated, their economic and social conditions are usually much worse than those of non-tribals. The impoverished and exploited circumstances under which adivasis live can be traced historically to the pattern of accelerated resource extraction started by the colonial British government and continued by the government of independent India. From the late nineteenth century onwards, the colonial government reserved most forest tracts for its own use, severing the rights that adivasis had long exercised to use the forest for gathering produce and for shifting cultivation. Forests were now to be protected for maximising timber production. With this policy, the mainstay of their livelihoods was taken away from adivasis, rendering their lives poorer and more insecure. Denied access to forests and land for cultivation, adivasis were forced to either use the forests illegally (and be harassed and prosecuted as ‘encroachers’ and thieves) or migrate in search of wage labour.