1. Under colonial rule the Government claimed a direct proprietary right over forests.
2. The commercialisation of forests led to the disintegration of the traditional tribal system.
3. It encouraged the incursion of tribal areas by non-tribal people such as contractors, moneylenders traders, land grabbers.
4. This led to the wide spread loss of adivasi land and their displacement from their traditional habitats. So Tribal resistance arose.
