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CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 8Social StudiesHow, When and Where4 Marks
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How did surveys become important under the colonial administration?
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Answer

The British gave much importance to the practice of surveying because they believed that a country had to be properly known before it could be effectively administred.
Therefore, they carried out detailed surveys by the early 19 th century in order to map the entire country:
  1. They conducted revenue surveys in villages.
  2. They made efforts to know the topography, the soil quality, the flora, the fauna, the local histories and the cropping pattern.
  3. They also introduced census operations, held at the interval of every ten years from the end of the 19th century. They prepared detailed records of the number of people in all the provinces of India, noting information on castes, religions and occupation separately.
  4. The British also carried on several other surveys such as botanical surveys, zoological surveys, archeolo-gical surveys, forest surveys, etc. In this way, they gathered all the facts that were essential for administering a country.

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