Colonial Forest Policy in Uttarakhand examines the roots of the Uttarakhand problem--the backwardness of this Himalayan region--which lie in the nature of colonial intervention in the area. Since British forest policy was the main instrument of colonial exploitation of Uttarakhand, this study looks at colonial forest legislation, the disruption it caused and the resistance to it. This book also explores some of the other ways in which colonialism touched upon the ...
