Environment and History · 1995 · 31 citations · 1 references
Social SciencesForestryEnvironmental AnthropologyForest ManagementRural DevelopmentAgrarian ChangeAgrarian HistoryDeforestationRural EconomyRural LivelihoodsSubsistence PracticesColonial IndiaColonial State PowerDeforestation Impacts On Indigenous CommunitiesForest-based SubsistenceLong-term Ecological ChangeNatural Resource-based LivelihoodsRural Livelihood DevelopmentSubsistence Resource Use
Abstract This paper addresses one of the most under-researched areas of resource use and management in rural India, that of 'wild resources', and explores the links between ecological change, famine and poverty. It is argued that once deforestation started to take place (in the context of the exploitation of the indigenous people by an outsider landlord class, aided by the colonial state), and the forest department denied people access to traditional famine foods, the Chotanagpur region found itself for the first time subject to the kind of vulnerability to famine that had affected lowland populations for a much longer period.
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