Forestry

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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

  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.