Teak and Arecanut: Colonial State Forest and People in the Western Ghats.(Review)

From: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Date: December 1, 1998| Author: Mawdsley, Emma | Copyright information

BUCHY, MARLENE. (South India) 1800-1947 (Publ. Dept. Sci. sociales 2). xxiv, 255 pp., col. plate, maps, tables, bibliogr. Pondicherry: Institut Francais de Pondicherry, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 1996. 80 FF

One of the most vilified arms of the colonial state in India was the Forest Department. It controlled vast areas of land, and its Byzantine maze of strict and often insensitive regulations governing forest management and use had enormous consequences...

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