Fencing the Forest: Conservation and Ecological Change in India's Central Provinces, 1860–1914. By Mahesh Rangarajan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii + 245 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $23.00

Abstract

The extensive woodlands of the Central Provinces of India became vital to imperial interests in the late nineteenth century, and this book argues that it was protection of these interests, rather than conservation per se that was at the heart of imperial forestry in India.