![]() ![]() Britain and the World Edinburgh University Press īritish Scholar Vol. We would like to thank the Social Science Research Council and the American Council In 2011 Brett will take up a position as a lecturer in modern history in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney. Bennett is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Barton is a permanent research fellow in environmental history in the Research School of Social Sciences and the Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University. Scholars of the subaltern school first viewed scientific foresters and their work as a force that encouraged the alienation of Indian society from nature, rupturing a precolonial ecological balance.3 From this perspective, the scientific forestry policies Gregory A. III, Issue 2, 219-234, September 2010 In the 1864 the Government of India established the Indian Forest Service.1 The IFS, and the various provincial forestry branches it directed, managed the vast government forests of India and acted as a guide and model for the broader empire forestry movement, one of the precursors to modern environmentalism.2 The IFS and its policies have been the focus of a great deal of scholarship. ‘There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods’: The Culture of Forestry in British India ‘There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods’: The Culture of Forestry in British Indiaīritish Scholar Vol. ![]()
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