Future of the forest : struggles over land and law in India /
"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 a...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment Series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/jj.16275975 |
Table of 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.