How was India's exploitation of the environment similar to China's? How did it differ?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Similarities
1. imperial expansion
2. fostering new settlement
3. increasing the range of farming
4. exploiting new resources
B. Differences
1. deforestation
a. policy the Mughal emperors embraced determinedly, in their
heartlands and new conquests alike
b. deforestation was part of a longstanding struggle to advance the
frontier of settlement and of Islam
1. granted forested areas to Muslim holy men and
communities, who planted wet rice in the cleared zones
c. instrument of enhanced control, uprooting jungles where
bandits and rebels sheltered, encouraging settlement and,
therefore, increasing revenues
2. Indian peasants were extremely efficient, producing two crops a year
almost everywhere they planted
a. millet, rice, or wheat
3. settlers followed Mughal armies
a. lumberjacks
b. colonists who followed them to new lands received tax
concessions and cheap plows
4. eviction of the existing population
a. introduced hundreds of Muslim religious foundations to clear
the forest and plant rice in newly won regions