A Limited Forest Conservancy in Southwest Bengal, 1864–1912
- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Journal of Asian Studies
- Vol. 56 (1) , 75-112
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2646344
Abstract
K. Sivaramakrishnan traces the effects of ambiguous and contradictory British colonial policies on forest conservancy in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth- century India. He emphasizes the differential and uneven effects of the colonial government's application of such procedures as forest reservation and protection, especially when extended to the diversity of social and ecological conditions existing in the northeastern Indian province of Bengal. His study of government forest control and management is also intended to illuminate the processes that were involved in colonial state building and that engendered a competition for the control of territory.Keywords
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