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The issues of the environmental history of Naga Hills including physical nature of the region, the terrain, soil and climate, natural vegetation and relationship of the forest and the Nagas.
The effective administration in this region was introduced only in 1881. Development of colonial discourses about nature's risk and the control of natural resources; and indigenous responses to the changing patterns of environmental control under colonialism are critically examined. The book also reveals the motive and role of colonial state behind steps taken for conservation and forest regulations.
Pushpanjoli Deori is associated with Department of Historic & Archeology, Nagaland University, Kohima, Nagaland and was Fellow of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
INTRODUCTION
NAGAS AND FOREST BEFORE COLONIZATION
EVOLUTION OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE ON DEFORESTATION AND CLIMATIC CHANGE
COLONIAL CONSERVATIONISM: SHIFTING CULTIVATION AND SOIL EROSION
CONSTITUTION OF STATE FORESTS IN ASSAM
CONCLUSION
APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX