Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables, Graphs and Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction
- Part I Nature and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Part II Scientific Forestry, Forest Management and Environmental Change
- CHAPTER 5 Scientific Forestry and Social Control: Regulating Access to Forests
- CHAPTER 6 The New Forest Regime and Restructuring of the Livestock Economy
- CHAPTER 7 Commercialisation of Forests, Timber Extraction, and Deforestation
- CHAPTER 8 The Myth of Sustainability and the Fate of Forests
- CHAPTER 9 Separating Farms from Forests: Collapsing of the Hill Economy
- CHAPTER 10 Conclusion: Unravelling the Crisis
- Epilogue: From Despair to Hope
- Bibliography
- Index
CHAPTER 6 - The New Forest Regime and Restructuring of the Livestock Economy
from Part II - Scientific Forestry, Forest Management and Environmental Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables, Graphs and Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction
- Part I Nature and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Part II Scientific Forestry, Forest Management and Environmental Change
- CHAPTER 5 Scientific Forestry and Social Control: Regulating Access to Forests
- CHAPTER 6 The New Forest Regime and Restructuring of the Livestock Economy
- CHAPTER 7 Commercialisation of Forests, Timber Extraction, and Deforestation
- CHAPTER 8 The Myth of Sustainability and the Fate of Forests
- CHAPTER 9 Separating Farms from Forests: Collapsing of the Hill Economy
- CHAPTER 10 Conclusion: Unravelling the Crisis
- Epilogue: From Despair to Hope
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
(T)he people of Garhwal are no less pastoral than agricultural, and in the parts of the north the former is their predominant character. Thus, at the last settlement, it is noted that Harmal in Pindarpar is a bher ka mulk (area dominated by sheep) while Jhaliya in the same patti is bakriyon ka gaon (village of goats).…
E.K. Pauw, The Tenth Settlement Report of District, Government Press, Allahabad, 1896, para 25.…(This list) I beg to submit for your inspection, and to enable you to judge how erratic has been the record of grazing rights, the Forest Settlement Officer would appear to have ignored all the orders of the Government which were issued for Mr. Goudge's guidance and worked on no fixed principle, but pure guess work. He has, moreover, omitted plough oxen, also ponies. The result is we have some villages granted a very much large number of cattle in proportion to their cultivation or actual requirements, whilst in others the reverse is the case.
Lt. Colonel E.E. Grigg, Commissioner Kumaun, to Chief Secretary to Government of North West Provinces and Oudh (Letter no. 5306, dated 17 June 1897, September 1897, progs. 15, File 7/1894–95 Box 60, COR, RA Nainital.
People of Uttarakhand are generally treated predominantly agriculturist. However, animal husbandry also is a very important part of the economy of the region. This aspect has been generally neglected in historical research.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Himalayan DegradationColonial Forestry and Environmental Change in India, pp. 160 - 188Publisher: Foundation BooksPrint publication year: 2008