After the Santhal Uprising subsided, what was/were the measure/measures taken by the colonial government? 1) The territories called `Santhal Paraganas' were created. 2) It became illegal for a Santhal to transfer land to a non-Santhal. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Both statements are correct, so the answer is C. The colonial government's response to the Hul of 1855-56 combined administrative reorganisation with land protection.

• Statement 1 is correct. The Santhal Parganas were carved out in 1856 from parts of Bhagalpur and Birbhum districts, under the Santhal Parganas Act of 1855, as a separate administrative unit with special regulations.
• Statement 2 is correct. Restrictions were placed on transfer of Santhal land to non-Santhal moneylenders and outsiders. The Santhal Parganas Tenancy Act, 1876 carried this protection, and the 1949 Act later reinforced it.
• Option A is wrong because it ignores statement 2, which is also a documented measure.
• Option B is wrong because it ignores statement 1, the territorial reorganisation.
• Option D is wrong because both measures were taken.

The core concept is colonial tribal policy: administrative isolation paired with restrictions on land alienation, which produced the 'exclusion' model later seen in the Fifth Schedule and PESA. For Mains, this links to tribal land alienation, the limits of protective laws, and why such laws often failed in practice through benami transfers and moneylender debt.

Trap: Candidates tend to treat the 1876 restriction as a post-independence law or assume the Santhal Parganas were formed only after 1947. Note that the 1949 Act is a later consolidation, not the origin of the restriction.