01681nam a22002297a 4500 20260217135737.0 260217b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788178247106 : Technical Bureau : 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi : TB3471 ; 11/2/2026 634.9 VAI Vaidya, Anand P. Future of the Forest : Struggles Over Land and Law in India. / Anand P. Vaidya. , New Delhi : Permanent Black , 2025. xiii, 184p. : 24cm. 416.50 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 forest land and its products. But at the turn of the twenty-first century, a new national movement led to the Forest Rights Act, a landmark law that recognizes the tenure and user-rights of millions of Indian landless forest dwellers. Anand P. Vaidya tracks the Forest Rights Act from the movements that pushed for its passage to its drafting and many revisions to satisfy local peoples, conservationists, political parties, and movements. He also looks closely at its impact on two neighboring villages in central India’s forest belt. The forests have seen a long history of political authority enacted to the benefit of the powerful; Future of the Forest follows the work of activists and forest dwellers who turned to the law to shift this balance of power. Forest Struggles Over Land Agriculture Anand P Vaidya BOOK 67096 67096 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-02-17 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 416.50 0 634.9 VAI 31332 2026-02-17 13:58:05 2026-02-17 BOOK