In the given question, a statement of Assertion is followed by a statement of Reason. Mark the correct answer.

Assertion: Britishers wanted to change the way of living of the forest people.
Reason: They saw forest people as savage, unruly, primitive, and difficult to govern.

Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.

To the British, an extension of settled agriculture was necessary to enlarge the sources of land revenue, produce crops for export, and establish the basis of a settled, ordered society. They also associated forests with wildness and saw forest people as savage, unruly, primitive, and difficult to govern. So they felt that forests had to be cleared, settled agriculture established, and forest people tamed, civilized, and persuaded to give up hunting and take to plough agriculture.