This chapter discusses how changing access to nature impacted an adivasi people, the Hos of Singhbhum. Under colonial rule, sedentarisation of agriculture and extension of cultivation did not benefit the Hos. Instead, the restrictive forest laws and the lack of irrigation led to an agrarian crisis in the region.
Accessing Nature: agrarian change, forest laws and their impact on an Adivasi economy in colonial India / DAS GUPTA, Sanjukta. - STAMPA. - (2016), pp. 81-108.
Accessing Nature: agrarian change, forest laws and their impact on an Adivasi economy in colonial India
Sanjukta Das Gupta
2016
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This chapter discusses how changing access to nature impacted an adivasi people, the Hos of Singhbhum. Under colonial rule, sedentarisation of agriculture and extension of cultivation did not benefit the Hos. Instead, the restrictive forest laws and the lack of irrigation led to an agrarian crisis in the region.File allegati a questo prodotto
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