Read the statements below carefully and choose the correct option.

Statement 1: Roughly from 1294-1798, people of France were expected to strictly follow 'sumptuary laws' which controlled the behaviour of socially inferior people.

Statement 2: Post French Revolution, the items of clothing a person could purchase per year was regulated by income and by social rank.

Statement 3: In medieval France, only royalty could wear expensive materials like ermine and fur, or silk, velvet and brocade.

In scientific forestry, forests had lots of different types of trees which were planted in a straight row.

The Indian Forest Service was set up in the _____ year. ($1898/1864$)

The statements given below make an Assertion (A) which is followed by a Reason (R). After carefully reading both the Assertion (A) and Reason (R), identify which amongst the options (1-4) given below is applicable to the question: 

Assertion (A): The British wanted to transform all grazing lands into cultivated farms.

Reason (R): Land revenue was negligible source of British finances.

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
2. Both A and Rare true and R is not the correct explanation of A
3. A is true and R is false.
4. A is false but R is true.

The Forest Act was enacted in $1856$, and was amended once in $1878$.

Match the items of column A with the corresponding items of column B and select the correct choice:

Column A                                                    Column B

1. Rational dress reform                             i. Cotton cloth printed with designs and flowers.

2. Chintz                                                     ii. Had to be removed before social superiors as a sign of respect.

3. Turban                                                   iii. Simplify dresses, shorten skirts, and abandon corsets.

4. Hat                                                        iv. Was a sign of respectability and could not be removed at will.

After reading The Assertion and Reason given, choose the correct option.

Assertion(A): Pastoralists had to pay tax on every animal they grazed on pastures.

Reason(R): To expand its revenue income,the colonial government looked for every possible source of taxation.

Read the statements below carefully and choose the correct option.

Statement 1 : Under the British rule, forests were cleared for tea, coffee and rubber plantation.

Statement 2 : Villagers want forests with a mixer of species to satisfy different needs like fuel, fodder, leaves.

Statement 3 : India Forest Act of 1878 divided forests into two categories - reserved and protected.

Why was practice of shifting cultivation regarded harmful by European experts?