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Future of the Forest : Struggles over Land and Law in India.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaidya, Anand P.
- Series:
- Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India. Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.
- India.
- Forests and forestry--Law and legislation--India.
- Forests and forestry.
- Forest management--India.
- Forest management.
- Forest people--Legal status, laws, etc--India.
- Forest people.
- Forests and forestry--Social aspects--India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501780516
- 1501780514
- OCLC:
- 1482762723
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