Indian Forest Acts, 1865 and 1878

The Indian Forests Act of 1865 extended the British Colonial claims over forests in India.[1] The 1865 act was a precursor to the Forest Act of 1878, which truncated the centuries-old traditional use by communities of their forests and secured the colonial governments control over the forestry. The act of 1865 empowered the British government to declare any land covered with trees as a government forest and make rules to manage it.

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References

  1. Menon, Jisha (2013). The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. preface. ISBN 9781107000100.
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