{"product_id":"future-of-the-forest-9788178247106","title":"FUTURE OF THE FOREST","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anand P Vaidya\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFuture of the Forest\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of legal transformations of forests across India through collective action. Since the nineteenth century, Indian forest dwellers have been unable to enforce their claims to forest land and its products. But at the turn of the twenty-first century, a new national movement led to the Forest Rights Act, a landmark law that recognizes the tenure and user-rights of millions of Indian landless forest dwellers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnand P. Vaidya tracks the Forest Rights Act from the movements that pushed for its passage to its drafting and many revisions to satisfy local peoples, conservationists, political parties, and movements. He also looks closely at its impact on two neighboring villages in central India’s forest belt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe forests have seen a long history of political authority enacted to the benefit of the powerful; \u003cem\u003eFuture of the Forest\u003c\/em\u003e follows the work of activists and forest dwellers who turned to the law to shift this balance of power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616475865239,"sku":"9788178247106","price":447.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788178247106.webp?v=1769294891","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/future-of-the-forest-9788178247106","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}