Pre‐colonial and colonial forest culture in the Presidency of Bengal

Indian forest based culture has a long history. Until the British colonial rule (1757 -1947), Indian forest has been controlled and used by several monarchies. The features of forest based livelihoods were also quite different from one period to another. Before Muslim period, Indian forest used to b...

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Main Author: Somnath Ghosal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest 2011-05-01
Series:Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography
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Online Access:http://humangeographies.org.ro/articles/51/5_1_11_8_ghosal.pdf