SANJAY KUMAR SRIVASTAVA,TAZEEM ABBAS RIZVI

Copyrighted Material Shifting Cultivation : The Last Breath Yet another brilliant book by Amazon best- selling author Sanjay Kumar Srivastava, IFS Retd. ‘This time he has teamed up with Tazeem Abbas Rizvi, a young social activist, "This book is an outcome of profound research and an intuitive perception that comes with deep knowledge, decades of experience and a way of looking at things, It shatters the existing beliefs and dogmas. It wonderfully explains that the issue of shifting cultivation could have been solved immediately after independence, But after 70 years, now it is not possible to solve it anymore by granting lands to the tribals because the rules of the game have changed. This book is a saga that covers many aspects of tribal discontent and gives us an excellent insight into their exploitation from 1765 onwards till date. 1am sure this book will touch your heart and transform your perception of the tumultuous past that shaped the bane of the shifting cultivation. The Shifting Cultivation will die with development is the dictum of this book and rightly so.” ~Shelly Shaurya, Best Selling Author, St. Stephen's College Economics Graduate and MBA from ESADE Business School, Spain and Ross School of Business, USA. About The Book This book is an iconoclastic rebel, Giving a glimpse of the bureaucratic and ecological history of India, it uncovers the real reasons for the tribal discontents and traces the genesis of banishing the Shifting Cultivation to the year 1765, that begun with the grant of Diwani Rights to the British East India Company, It explains how the antagonism towards the shifting cultivation continued during the British Raj and thereafter in free India, The book dethrones Dietrich Brandis , the First Inspector General of Forests of India from being the "Father of the Indian Forestry" to a colonizer of Indian forests, Tracing the genesis and metamorphosis of the tribal revolts in India, it talks of a “Great Betrayal" by the British and by the subsequent governments of the post-independence India, It candidly examines the Forest policies, various acts ,commissions etc, and their real time effectiveness, It suggests a decentralised rural Industrialization and explains why. inclusive development is the only answer to end shifting cultivation. SHELLY SHAURYA FOUNDATION