Edited ajit kumar banerjee (1 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Natraj Pub 2010
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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.