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Redressing historical injustice through the Indian Forest Rights Act 2006 [1]

This paper analyses historical origins of forest rights deprivation and contemporary processes through which local people are seeking to restore their forest rights, taking the case of the Indian Forest Rights Act 2006 as an example to illustrate wider issues in historical institutional theory.

The paper explores how the colonial state

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Madhu Sarin [2], & et al [3], Oliver Springate-Baginski [4], Soumitra Ghosh [5]
Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth [6]
Tags:
Forests [7], Land Ownership [8], Land Tenure [9], Forest Villages [10], Forest Act [11], Forest Rights Act 2006 [12], Minor Forest Produce [13], Tribals [14], Wildlife [15], India [16]
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[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/oliver-springate-baginski-0
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[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-villages
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-act
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-rights-act-2006
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/minor-forest-produce
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tribals
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
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