The Waste Land Rule completely changed the life of the pastoralists.
(i) By these Rules uncultivated lands were taken over and given to select individuals.
(ii) These individuals were granted various concessions and encouraged to settle these lands. Some of them were made headmen of villages in the newly cleared areas. In most areas the lands taken our were actually grazing tracts used regularly by pastoralists.
(iii) Expansion of cultivation mentably mant the decline of pastures and a problem for pastoralists.