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Future of the forest : struggles over land and law in India /

Vaidya, Anand P., 1982-

Future of the forest : struggles over land and law in India / Anand P. Vaidya. - xiii, 184 pages. 23 cm. - Cornell series on land: new perspectives on territory, development, and environment .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How the forests became Indian -- Historical injustices and the movement to create the Forest Rights Act -- The Law as rumor -- Abandoned solidarities and new legal futures -- National politics and the scales of the Forest Rights Act.

"Future of the Forest is a historical and ethnographic account of the life of India's 2006 Forest Rights Act. The book follows the law from the movements that pushed for its passage to a North Indian forest village, showing how the law's meaning was shaped through ongoing collective action"--

9781501780509

2024050304


India. Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.


Forestry--Law and legislation--India.
Forest management--India.
Forest people--Legal status, laws, etc.--India.
Forests and forestry--Social aspects--India.

342.54087 VAI