LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – APPLIED HISTORY

THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

HT 3813 – ECOLOGICAL HISTORY OF INDIA

 

 

Date : 08/11/2012            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

Part-A

Answer any FOUR of the following in 100 words each:                            (4×5=20 Marks)

 

1. Forest Resources
2. Nomadic Pastoralism
3. Indian Forest Act of 1865
4. Deforestation
5. Selection Felling
6. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Part-B

Answer any TWO of the following in 200 words each:                    (2×10=20 Marks)

 

 

7. State the important features of the Forest Act of 1894.
8. Explain briefly the early onslaughts on forest.
9. Examine the role of tribal women in promoting social forestry
10. List out the important provisions of Kyoto Protocol.

Part-C

Answer any THREE of the following in 1200 words each:             (3×20=60Marks)

 

 

11. Write an essay on the four modes of Resource in 19^th
12. Examine the characteristic feature and problems of the Shifting Cultivation.
13. “Colonialism is an Ecological Watershed”- Comment
14. Discuss the Forest Policy of India upto 1947
15. Assess the role of UN Environmental Programme.

 

 

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