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Laws, Strategies, Ideologies: Legislating Forests in Colonial India [Hardback]

  • Format: Hardback, 248 pages, height x width: 213x136 mm, weight: 385 g
  • Pub. Date: 08-Nov-2001
  • Publisher: OUP India
  • ISBN-10: 0195655575
  • ISBN-13: 9780195655575
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  • Format: Hardback, 248 pages, height x width: 213x136 mm, weight: 385 g
  • Pub. Date: 08-Nov-2001
  • Publisher: OUP India
  • ISBN-10: 0195655575
  • ISBN-13: 9780195655575
An excellently researched and lucid narrative on the making of the forest law in colonial India. Laws, Strategies, Ideologies helps to revise our understanding of modern law and its colonial introduction.
List of Abbreviations
xii
Introduction 1(2)
The State and the Law
3(1)
Subject, Production, and Dissemination of Ideas
4(2)
Text and Production of Ideas
6(1)
Law and Coercion
7(2)
Law and Ideology
9(1)
Law and Strategy
9(2)
Unifying Law, Strategy and Ideology
11(1)
State and Forest Conservation
11(6)
Discourse and Practice: Ownership of Forests in Malabar and Kanara
Traders and Legislators: Company Rule in Malabar, 1792--1807
17(17)
Discourses on Property Right on Timber
18(4)
Ownership Constructed as Public--Private Property
22(4)
Forests as the Property of Landholders
26(3)
Court of Directors Revert to Public--Private
29(1)
Favours to Macknochie
30(2)
Transfer of Malabar from Bombay to Madras Presidency
32(2)
Discourse to Social Practices: Imposition and Abolition of Company's Rights, 1807--23
34(12)
Conservatorship and Malabar Administration
34(4)
Abolition of Conservatorship
38(4)
The Aftermath
42(4)
Turning Owners into Encroachers: Official Discourses on Kanara Forests, 1800--60
46(25)
`Ancient' Land Revenue System
46(5)
Administrative Concerns on Land Revenue in Kanara
51(3)
Blane's Report
54(1)
Timber Gains Value
55(3)
Reorganization of Legal Theory by Blane
58(4)
Gaps in Theory and Practice
62(2)
Comments on Blane's Theory
64(1)
The Madras Board of Revenue's Response to Blane
64(7)
Managing Forests, 1860--82
State, Management of Forests, and the Ideology of Conservation
71(18)
Ideas and Contestation within the Company
74(4)
Contesting Forests and Environment, 1830--50
78(7)
Triumph of Forest Conservation
85(4)
Law, Ideology, Strategy and Practices: Early Encounters in Law Making
89(13)
Forest Department and the Local People
89(4)
A New Draft Bill
93(4)
Comments by Local Governments
97(5)
Forging Legal Theory
102(20)
Forest as State Property: Government of India
103(7)
Local Use as `Customary Right': Baden-Powell
110(2)
Madras Presidency and the Denial of State's Rights
112(1)
Madras Versus the Government of India
113(6)
Madras and the Politics of Difference
119(3)
Genealogy of Forest Provisions: Law as Register of Practices
122(21)
Reserved Forests
122(4)
Unreserved Forests
126(1)
Procedure and Powers of Officials
127(4)
Transit Restrictions
131(1)
Penal Provisions
132(3)
Political Economy of Administrative Relations
135(2)
The Bill and Legislative Council
137(6)
Law, Representation and Power: Making of the Madras Forest Act, 1882
143(10)
Making of the Madras Forest Act
147(6)
Conclusion 153(10)
Legal Knowledge and Official Discourse
153(2)
State and Monopoly over Production of Law
155(1)
Environmental Ideas and Social Practices
156(5)
India and British Legal Ideas
161(2)
Reflections on the Rule of Law 163(8)
Bibliography 171(9)
Glossary 180(2)
Index 182