• Sanchita Bhattacharyya

The total land area of the country is 3,287,590 sq kms of which 22.6% is covered by actual forests, which plays a vital and integral role in the life and lives of the forest dwelling people, especially the tribes. The forest dwelling people and the tribes are more or less dependent on the forest in most everything in life and life sustenance. The Indian Forest attracted the then British rulers with all its treasure, who realized the economic immanence found inside it, the potential outcome that could arise from it. Age-old rights over it generation wise were established by the aboriginals, the tribes, with forest as their own abode. When the British Government realized that the tribes were a step ahead in the understanding of the forest, to establish their absolute dominance, they quickly established a law about the forest. The naive, illiterate, poor tribes were uprooted and expelled from the forest; they were forced into danger, in absolute dismay without any known means of maintaining livelihoods.

Forest, tribe, British Forest Act, livelihood, Sustenance .

"FOREST TRIBE OF DOOARS AND BRITISH RULE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.756-761, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904T98.pdf

"FOREST TRIBE OF DOOARS AND BRITISH RULE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp756-761, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904T98.pdf