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Contents Preface 1 The Origins of Modern Forests in India with particular reference to the Eastern Indian SubcontinentManuu Banerjee 2 Forestry in Ancient IndiaCD Chatterjee 3 The Other of Civilisation Portrayal of the Forest in Early IndiaRanbir Chakravarti 4 History of Forests in the Mughal EmpireShireen Moosvi 5 Wild Life of India through the agesSaswati Bandyopadhyay 6 Management of wild life in India 1878-2002Dhriti K Lahiri-Choudhury 7 The Prehistory of Community ForestryRamachandra Guha 8 Tellling the Post-colonial History of Indian forestryAjit Kumar Banerjee Footprints in the Forest is one of the finest contemporary texts to document the history of forestry and wild life in the Indian Sub-continentThe book traces the development of vegetation forests forest types and wild life in the proto-historical and historical periods Particularly fascinating are microcosmic insights on the geological history of forestry and wild life in the Neogene and Pleistocene eras their close linkages with the geological evolution of the Indian Sub-continent and the resultant mass migration and redistribution of animals in parts of the globe This is an aspect of forestry that has often been ignored by non-Palaeontologist forestersEqually evocative is the historical reconstruction of wild life and forestry form the Vedic Period to forestry during Kautilya?s time through the Mughal Period to the advent of Modern Forestry under the British rule and later post-Independence in present day India The faithful recreation of the state of the forests and the accompanying civilizations that existed during the various periods invoke beautiful word pictures of eras gone by enriching the book beyond mere forestry and wild life The contributions in the anthology bring into focus men and women who peopled those times and manned the forestsThe book also deals with modern day issues such as Joint Forest Management wild life conservation in the current context the legislative and policy changes including those related to rights and privileges of forest fringe people making it one of the most complete classics in the annals of forestry and wild life Jacket 326 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. If India did not exist, cartoonists may have had to invent it. Perhaps no other country in the world presents such rich and varied material for the depiction of humor as does India. Humor is the harmonious reconciliation of opposites and India abounds in opposites: the corrupt, overweight VVIP and the skinny and honest aam admi, the pompous politico and the skeptical voter, the tangled red tape of bureaucracy and the Indian genius for jugged which innovative cuts through it all. The Times of India is proud to present from its archives this pageant of cartoons that portrays the trials and the travails, the triumphs and the zest for life that make up the never say die spirit of India.

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