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* 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. | * 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) | * L/PJ/6/776 – relates to Birth/baptismal certificates in Indian Forest Service candidates' application papers (1906) | ||
*''Science and the Changing Environment in India 1780-1920: A Guide to Sources in the India Office Records'' by Richard Axelby and Savithri Preetha Nair 2009. The guide is arranged in eleven chapters including one in respect of forests and forestry. Available through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/0712309454 FIBIS Shop] | |||
===Records Online=== | ===Records Online=== | ||
Revision as of 06:26, 13 October 2010
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 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)
- Science and the Changing Environment in India 1780-1920: A Guide to Sources in the India Office Records by Richard Axelby and Savithri Preetha Nair 2009. The guide is arranged in eleven chapters including one in respect of forests and forestry. Available through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop
Records Online
Notes
- ↑ Dietrich Brandis 1824-1907 (Wikipedia) who was appointed Inspector General of Forests in India in 1864. Obituary
External links
- Developments in Forestry, British India from History of India, Indianetzone
- “British India’s forestry and modern environmentalism” by GN Sinha 2006. Htm version. Originally from SFRI
Historical books online
- The work of the Forest Department in India edited by Robert Scott Troup 1917 Archive.org
- 100 years of Indian Forestry 1861-1961 Volume 1 by VS Rao 1961 Archive.org
- 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 Songs of The Survivors, page 56, stories about the Goan community and the Trek Out of Burma in 1942.