Future of the Forest - (Cornell Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment) by Anand P Vaidya (Paperback)

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About the Book "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 action"-- Provided by publisher. Book Synopsis Future of the Forest is the story of legal transformations of forests across India through collective action . Since the nineteenth century, Indian forest dwellers have been unable to enforce their claims to the land on which they live or the products of it that they use. But at the turn of the twenty-first century, a new national movement led to the …