Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct?

Statement A- Buchanan was critical of the lifestyles of forest dwellers and felt that forests had to be turned into agricultural lands.
 Statement B- His assessment of what was necessary was shaped by the commercial concerns of the Company and modern Western notions of what constituted progress.

Both statements are correct.

The correct answer is Option 3 - Both statements are correct.

Given Statements:

Statement A- Buchanan was critical of the lifestyles of forest dwellers and felt that forests had to be turned into agricultural lands.
Statement B- His assessment of what was necessary was shaped by the commercial concerns of the Company and modern Western notions of what constituted progress.

When Buchanan wrote about a landscape, he most often described not just what he saw, what the landscape was like, but also how it could be transformed and made more productive – what crops could be cultivated, which trees cut down, and which ones grown. And we must remember that his vision and his priorities were different from those of the local inhabitants: his assessment of what was necessary was shaped by the commercial concerns of the Company and modern Western notions of what constituted progress. He was inevitably critical of the lifestyles of forest dwellers and felt that forests had to be turned into agricultural lands.