Environmental History and Tribals in Modern India By Velayutham SaravananEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 221 Pages | ISBN : 9811080518 | 2.54 MB
This monograph presents a comprehensive account of environmental history of India and its tribals from the late eighteenth onwards, covering both the colonial and post-colonial periods. The book elaborately discusses the colonial plunder of forest resources up to the introduction of the Forest Act (1878) and focuses on how colonial policy impacted on the Indian environment, opening the floodgates of forest resources plunder, primarily for timber and to establish coffee and tea plantations.