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Subject: H-ASIA: Resource A Forest History of India by Richard Tucker

> H-ASIA
> November 18, 2011
>
> Resource (former member's publication) A Forest History
> of India by Richard Tucker
> ***********************************************************
> From: Frank Conlon
>
> During a very brief stay in Delhi, I encountered a new
> book by a former member that I felt should be noted here.
> Richard first contributed a study of M. G. Ranade and the
> career of social reform in western India. He subsequently
> took an "environmental turn" and collaborated with the late
> John Richards on a major project studying carbon in the
> world.
>
> A FOREST HISTORY OF INDIA
> by Richard P. Tucker
> Sage Publications, 2011, 276 pp
> ISBN 978-81-321-0693-7
>
> A Forest History of India is a study of the evolution of
> forest policy at the national level, in counterpoint with
> management at the provincial and local levels, primarily
> in the Himalayan districts.
>
> The book highlights the two main strains of conflict that
> characterize the evolution of professional forestry in
> India. First, the tension between the subsistence needs
> of the local population and the commercial needs of the
> colonial state, and second, the clash between the forest
> department, which sought to preserve and manage forests,
> and the revenue department, which was driven by the need
> to expand agriculture and industry.
>
> The contents are essays published in the 1980s and 1990s:
>
> Introduction
> Forest Management and Imperial Politics: Thana District,
> Bombay, 1823—1887
>
> The Forests of the Western Himalayas: The Legacy of British
> Colonial Administration
>
> The British Colonial System and the Forests of the Western
> Himalayas, 1815—1914
>
> The Historical Context of Social Forestry in the Kumaon
> Himalayas
>
> The Evolution of Transhumant Grazing in the Punjab Himalaya
>
> The British Empire and India`s Forest Resources: The
> Timberlands of Assam and Kumaon, 1914—1950
>
> The Depletion of India`s Forests under British Imperialism:
> Planters, Foresters, and Peasants in Assam and Kerala
>
> The Commercial Timber Economy under Two Colonial Regimes
> in Asia
>
> Resident Peoples and Wildlife Reserves in India: The Pre-
> history of a Strategy
>
> Non-Timber Forest Products Policy in the Western Himalayas
> under British Rule
>
> Index
>
>
> Richard P Tucker retired from Oakland University and is now
> Affiliate Professor in the School of Natural Resources and
> Environment, University of Michigan, USA
>
>
> For more information:
> http://www.sagepub.in/browse/book.asp?bookid=1635&Subject_Name=&mode=1#abt
>
>
> Frank Conlon
> H-ASIA
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