Question

The Waste Land Rules were introduced in the century.

• A. mid-nineteenth
• B. mid-seventeenth
• C. mid-eighteenth
• D. mid-sixteenth

Answer 1

The correct option is A mid-nineteenth

The British viewed grazing lands as waste lands because they neither produced revenue nor agricultural produce like jute, cotton, wheat, and others that were required back in England. To make maximum use of these lands, the British introduced the Waste Land Rules in the mid-nineteenth century.