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*[http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;q1=wallah;rgn=title;view=toc;idno=sea297 ''Experiences of a jungle-wallah''] by Hugh Nisbet 1910 Southeast Asia Visions. The author worked for the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation from 1879. The company logged teak in the Burma forests.  
*[http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;q1=wallah;rgn=title;view=toc;idno=sea297 ''Experiences of a jungle-wallah''] by Hugh Nisbet 1910 Southeast Asia Visions. The author worked for the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation from 1879. The company logged teak in the Burma forests.  


:The company is mentioned evacuating the European families of its forest officers in 1942, in [http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PA56 Songs of The Survivors], page 56, stories about the Goan community and the Trek  Out of Burma in 1942.  
:The company is mentioned evacuating the European families of its forest officers in 1942, in [http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PA56 Songs of The Survivors], page 56, stories about the Goan community and the Trek  Out of Burma in 1942.
*[http://archive.org/stream/junglebywaysinin00stebrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Jungle by-ways in India; leaves from the note-book of a sportsman and a naturalist'']  by Edward Percy Stebbing 1911 Archive.org. The author spent sixteen years in the Indian Forest Service


* Selected editions of the monthly magazine [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22the%20indian%20forester%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts "The Indian Forester"] covering a period between 1875 and 1905 can be found at archive.org. Many indiduals are mentioned in the included Extracts from Official Gazettes
* Selected editions of the monthly magazine [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22the%20indian%20forester%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts "The Indian Forester"] covering a period between 1875 and 1905 can be found at archive.org. Many indiduals are mentioned in the included Extracts from Official Gazettes
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Revision as of 05:29, 22 April 2013

The Indian Forestry Department of India was created in 1867, under the leadership of Dr Dietrich Brandis [1]

Training of Officers

  • 1867 - 1885 student officers received training in France and Germany.
  • 1885 -1906 student officers received training at the Royal Indian Engineering College at Coopers Hill in Surrey, UK.
  • 1906-1927 student officers received training via Oxford , Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities.
  • 1927 -1938 student officers were trained at the Imperial Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun, which had been established in 1906.

Some sources of records

Asian and African Reading Room (British Library)

  • Names of individuals may be found in the annual directories on the open shelves
  • The forestry department was considered part of the Public Works Department. References to employment service may , therefore, be found amongst the L/PWD records at the British Library. For example, L/PWD/8/11 relates to Birth/baptismal certificates in candidates' application papers for the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill 1871-1903.
  • L/PJ/6/776 – relates to Birth/baptismal certificates in Indian Forest Service candidates' application papers (1906)
  • Forest Department 1893-1900 Information to be found in L/F/10 221-228
  • See also Bengal Civil Servants 1706 - 1917 where it is indicated that there are over 50 'misfiled' record copies of Uncovenanted Officers in the Forestry Dept between the covenanted servants for 1884 and 1885 (L/F/10/45 - IOR Neg 57085-6 )
  • For more about the L/F/10 records, see L/F/10 Records of Service 1702-1928

Records Online


Notes

  1. Dietrich Brandis 1824-1907 (Wikipedia) who was appointed Inspector General of Forests in India in 1864. Obituary


External links

Historical books online

The company is mentioned evacuating the European families of its forest officers in 1942, in Songs of The Survivors, page 56, stories about the Goan community and the Trek Out of Burma in 1942.
  • Selected editions of the monthly magazine "The Indian Forester" covering a period between 1875 and 1905 can be found at archive.org. Many indiduals are mentioned in the included Extracts from Official Gazettes