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2 HISTORICAL INJUSTICES AND THE MOVEMENT TO CREATE THE FOREST RIGHTS ACT

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doi:10.7591/cornell/9781501780493.003.0003
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Anand P. Vaidya
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2025
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This chapter details the historical injustices faced by forest dwellers in India, as state agencies actively evicted thousands from their homes based on disputed legal orders and mistranslated documents. It illustrates how state power and the judiciary conspired through chains of orders and word traps to authorize these evictions, while grassroots activists mobilized to challenge and expose systemic abuses. The chapter traces the emergence of a powerful political movement that reinterpreted legal narratives to validate the rights of marginalized forest communities and demand a transformative law to end centuries of dispossession. It explains how diverse actors—including lawyers, activists, and politically engaged intellectuals—strategically negotiated contested legal language to create the Forest Rights Act and redefine land rights for forest dwellers. Finally, the chapter underscores that the struggle to implement these rights continues through active contestation and political mobilization, as the movement seeks to convert historical injustice into contemporary justice.

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W4410073120
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10.7591/cornell/9781501780493.003.0003

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Anand P. Vaidya. 2 HISTORICAL INJUSTICES AND THE MOVEMENT TO CREATE THE FOREST RIGHTS ACT. 2025. https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501780493.003.0003

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Anand P. Vaidya. (2025). 2 HISTORICAL INJUSTICES AND THE MOVEMENT TO CREATE THE FOREST RIGHTS ACT. https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501780493.003.0003
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Anand P. Vaidya. 2 HISTORICAL INJUSTICES AND THE MOVEMENT TO CREATE THE FOREST RIGHTS ACT. 2025. https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501780493.003.0003
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Anand P. Vaidya. 2 HISTORICAL INJUSTICES AND THE MOVEMENT TO CREATE THE FOREST RIGHTS ACT. 2025. https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501780493.003.0003

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