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The grazing grounds for their cattle reduced in size and the revenue they had to pay increased.

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The above statement is true.
Colonialism had a high impact on pastoralists and their way of life. With the advent of colonialism, pastoralists learned that their movements were restricted, the size of their cattle's grazing regions was reduced, and the revenue they had to pay increased. To begin with, the colonial state wished to turn all grazing pastures into cultivated cropland. To colonial administrators, uncultivated land appeared unproductive, yielding neither money nor agricultural produce. It was seen as a "wasteland" that needed to be developed. In the mid-nineteenth century, many areas of the country enacted Waste Land Rules. As a result of these measures, several forests that produced economically significant timber, such as deodar or sal, were declared "Reserved".

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