The Forests of India

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I

II. THE EARLY HISTORY OF INDIA AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE

FORESTS

PART II

III. POSITION OF THE FORESTS AT THE TIME THE BRITISH ACHIEVED

SUPREMACY IN INDIA

IV. ON THE CHARACTER AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE FORESTS.

THE POSITION AND TREATMENT OF THE FORESTS

IN INDIA, 1796-1850

V. THE STAGES Prior to THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FOREST POLICY,

1796-1850

VI. FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE MADRAS AND BOMBAY PRESI-

DENCIES, 1796-1840

VII. FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE MADRAS AND BOMBAY PRESI-

DENCIES (continued), 1840-50. THE CONOLLY TEAK

PLANTATIONS

VIII. FOREST OPERATIONS IN TENASSERIM, BURMA-1796-1840

IX. FOREST OPERATIONS IN TENASSERIM, BURMA (continued)—

1840-50

X. FOREST OPERATIONS IN UPPER INDIA-NORTH-WEST PRO-

VINCES AND OUDH, CENTRAL INDIA, PUNJAB, BENGAL AND

ASSAM, 1796-1850. THE FIRST MEETING OF THE BRITISH

THE FIRST BEGINNINGS OF FOREST CONSERVANCY

IN INDIA, 1850-1857

XII.

CHAPTER

XI. THE INITIAL STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FOREST

POLICY, 1850-57. THE ANNEXATION OF THE PUNJAB,

OUDH, AND THE PEGU PROVINCE, BURMA

PART III

XIV.

XV.

THE INITIAL START IN FOREST CONSERVANCY IN THE

MADRAS AND BOMBAY PRESIDENCIES, 1850-57

XIII. FOREST OPERATIONS IN BURMA (TENASSERIM)-1850-57,

DR. FALCONER'S REPORT

FOREST OPERATIONS IN BURMA (PEGU), 1850-57 (continued).

DR. MCCLELLAND'S WORK IN THE PEGU FORESTS, AND

THE FOREST CHARTER

FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE PUNJAB, WESTERN HIMALAYA,

AND SIND, 1850-57

PART IV

XVI. FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE PUNJAB AND WESTERN HIMA-

LAYA (continued), 1850-57. SIMLA IN 1853 AND ITS

FUEL SUPPLY

THE INITIATION OF FOREST CONSERVANCY IN INDIA,

1858-1864

XVII. THE HISTORICAL POSITION OF THE FORESTS DURING THE

PERIOD 1858-64. THE INDIAN MUTINY AND ITS

RESULTS

XVIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF FOREST CONSERVANCY IN THE MADRAS

PRESIDENCY, 1858-64. DR. CLEGHORN'S WORK IN

MADRAS.

XXI. THE COMMENCEMENT OF FOREST CONSERVANCY IN THE

CENTRAL PROVINCES, 1858-64.

XXII. FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE PUNJAB, 1858-64. THE WEST-

ERN HIMALAYAN FORESTS

XIX. THE INITIATION OF FOREST CONSERVANCY IN THE BOMBAY

PRESIDENCY, 1858-64. THE SIND FORESTS, 1858-64 325

XX. THE INTRODUCTION OF FOREST CONSERVANCY IN BURMA,

1858-64. SIR D. BRANDIS' WORK IN BURMA

XXIII. FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE PUNJAB, 1858-64 (continued).

THE FORESTS OF THE FRONTIER

XXIV.

FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE PUNJAB, 1858-64 (continued).

TIMBER SUPPLIES FROM THE INDUS, SWAT AND KABUL

RIVERS.

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XXV. FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE PUNJAB, 1858-64 (continued).

THE FUEL SUPPLIES OF SIMLA AND THE PUNJAB PLAINS 476

XXVI. FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES AND

OUDH, 1858-64

XXVII.

FOREST OPERATIONS IN BENGAL AND ASSAM, 1858-64

XXVIII. THE OPINIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AND THE

SECRETARY OF STATE ON THE VALUE OF THE FORESTS,

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ILLUSTRATIONS, VOLUME I

The Lake at Naini Tal, nestled in a secluded valley under the summit
of China Pahar (vide page 498)
Rainfall Map of India

Frontispiece Left of title page To face page

Melocanna bambusioides, six years old, Kassalong River, Chittagong Hill

Tracts

The Forest Bungalow, Anaimalai Forests, Madras
View from Rungamatti, Chittagong Hill Tracts. A mutilated Gurjun
oil tree (Dipterocarpus turbinatus) on right

Chilgoza (Pinus Gerardiana) Forest at Shinghar, with natural regenera-
tion in foreground. North Zhob

Country cart loaded with a squared teak beam of 20 cubic feet (Madras) Five logs from one teak tree, South Coimbatore, Madras. Dimensions of log with figure: Length, 16 ft. 9 in.; mean girth, 16 ft. 6 in.; volume, 285 cubic feet

On the Beypur River, Nilumbur

Two-year Teak Plantation, Nilumbur, Madras
Elephants piling squares of teak timber in a timber yard at Rangoon
Damage done to base of a teak tree by fire, Burma
Bamboo rafts of Muli bamboo, Kassalong River, Chittagong Hill Tracts
View of the Anaimalai timber slip
Ficus enclosing a teak tree. Girth over ficus, 17 ft. 5 in. Burma.
Rafts of teak timber on river bank alongside a sawmill, Rangoon
Deodar Forest, North-West Himalaya

The Nilgiris, showing sholas. Pykara Falls and heavy forest on right
Damage done to stem of a teak tree by fire, Burma

Elephants dragging teak logs. Burmese forests

Sål Forest, heavily cut out by contractors and then swept by a storm.
A good example of the after-effects of lumbering.

Old uncut sâl forests in Chota Nagpur. A characteristic view. A
contractor's fair-weather bridge of slabs across a nulla
An ordinary timber slide, Punjab Himalaya (circa 1862)
Mixed forest of Pinus excelsa, Cedrus deodara, Picea morinda and Abies
Pindrow (silver fir), Upper Siran Valley, Hazara .

A Rukh in the Punjab. The vegetation consists of Capparis aphylla (in
foreground), Salvadora, and Prosopis spicigera

Arid hills and valleys of Baluchistan and Waziristan, with scattered
Olive and Pistachio trees on slopes

The hot, steep slopes of the Chir (Pinus longifolia) Forests, North-West

Himalaya

Dr. J. D. Hooker, F.R.S., in the Rhododendron Region in the Hima

layan Mountains, 1854

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