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Environmental History of Tamil Nadu State, Law and Decline of Forest and Tribals, 1950–2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2007

VELAYUTHAM SARAVANAN
VELAYUTHAM SARAVANAN
Affiliation:
Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Nizamiah Observatory Campus, Begumpet, Hyderabad-500 016, Andhra Pradesh, India Email: saro@cess.ac.in
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Environment and sustainable development have been accorded great emphasis since the last quarter of the twentieth century. In India, the environmental protection is enshrined in the Constitution of India (42nd Amendment) under the Directive Principles of State Policy in 1977. According to Article 48A, ‘State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife in the country’. Article 51A(g) enjoins upon the citizens ‘to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes and rivers and wildlife and to have compassion for the living creatures’.

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Research Article
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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , July 2007 , pp. 723 - 767
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The earlier version of the article presented in absence at the panel on Environmental History and Politics in South Asia sponsored by South Asia Council part of Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, held at Chicago on 31 March—3 April 2005. My sincere thanks are to Association for Asian Studies and South Asia Council for their kind encouragement. I thank Professors K. Sivaramakrishnan, Douglas E. Haynes and Michael H. Fisher for their encouragement. However, I am only responsible for the end product.