Major Trends Of Indian Forestry Development: A Brief Overview

Indian environmental historical study always centered round the colonial exploitation of natural resources. This exploitative nature was significantly concealed under the guise of desiccationist tendencies that seemed to characterize a new trend of environmental scenario within the colonial set up.Yet India possessed a distinct environmental culture that dated from ancient past. This culture treated nature gently by the mode of surplus extraction but suitable substitution was made at regular intervals. The present paper wishes to highlight the major trends that was intertwined with Indian environmental scenario .Indian historical shifts centered on three distinct phases of developments and the environmental trends changes with these shifts. The present paper underlines these shifts and reveal the differences.