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Land Use 2: Sustainable Forestry Location: B010 Session Chair: Francesca Eustacchi, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | |
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Administrative Classifications and Livelihood Development: Evidence from India’s Forest Villages Duke University, United States of America This project studies the long-run effects of a colonial forest-governance institution- Forest Villages- in the country of India on contemporary development outcomes for forest-dwelling communities. Forest Villages were settlements established inside India’s reserved forests in the early twentieth century by the British colonial forest department to secure permanent labor for forestry operations and consolidate state control. Residents of Forest Villages had no legal rights and were entirely reliant on forest department permissions for cultivation, alternative employment, resource use, and basic services. Even after more than 75 years of independence, this institutional arrangement has persisted in India’s forest administration. Forest Villages remain outside the jurisdiction of revenue administration and the state channels through which rural infrastructure and welfare programs are delivered. Using archival sources, census and geospatial data for Forest Villages of Madhya Pradesh state and complementary spatial identification strategies, we provide preliminary evidence on how this historical institution mediates public service delivery and livelihoods of millions of forest-dwelling communities from 1991-2011. | |