The Chipko movement. In the 1970s, an organized resistance to the destruction of forests spread throughout India and came to be known as the Chipko movement. The name of the movement comes from the word 'embrace', as the villagers hugged the trees, and prevented the contractors' from felling them.
During the Middle Ages education was confined only to Brahmins.
During the Mughal Empire, zamindars belonged tothe nobility and formed the ruling class. Emperor Akbar granted them mansabs and their ancestral domains were treated as jagirs.
In some respects of zamindars and the peasants were natural allies in any struggle against the Mughal government.
The Zamindars often received the support of the peasantry in many agrarian uprisings in North India in the seventeenth century.
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