Question 3 - Assertion Reasoning - Chapter 5 Class 9 History - Pastoralists in the Modern World - History

Assertion (A): One of the problems the Massais have forced is the continuous loss of their grazing lands.

Reason (R): Before colonial times, Massailand stretched over a vast area from North Kenya to the Steppes of Northern Tanzania.

Answer:

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So, the correct option is (a) - Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Explanation

• Assertion (A) - One of the problems the Massai have faced is the continuous loss of their grazing lands because, before the colonial times, Maasailand was vast that stretched over from North Kenya to the Steppes of Northern Tanzania. Thus, Assertion (A) is true.
  
  
• Reasoning (R) - Before colonial times, Massailand stretched over a vast area from North Kenya to the Steppes of Northern Tanzania which is correct. Thus, the reasoning (R) is true.
  
  
• One of the problems the Massai have faced is the continuous loss of their grazing lands because, before the colonial times, Maasailand was vast that stretched over from North Kenya to the Steppes of Northern Tanzania. The Maasai lost about 60 per cent of their pre-colonial lands . Thus assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion (A).

Thus,

• Assertion is true
• Reasoning is true
• And, Reasoning is the correct explanation of assertion.

So the correct answer is (a) .

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