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

Assertion: By the 1780s, Paharia chiefs were given an annual allowance by the Britishers.
Reason: Britishers felt that forest people should be tamed, civilized, and persuaded to give up hunting and take to plough agriculture.

Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.

As settled agriculture expanded, the area under forests and pastures contracted. This sharpened the conflict between hill folk and settled cultivators. The former began to raid settled villages with increasing regularity, carrying away food grains and cattle. Exasperated colonial officials tried desperately to control and subdue the Paharias. Then, by the 1780s, Augustus Cleveland, the Collector of Bhagalpur, proposed a policy of pacification. Paharia chiefs were given an annual allowance and made responsible for the proper conduct of their men. They were expected to maintain order in their localities and discipline their own people.