when was the forest act enacted during the british period
Indian Forest Act, 1927 The Indian Forests Act of 1865 extended the British Colonial claims over forests in India.[1] The 1865 act was a precursor to the Forest Act of 1878, which truncated the centuries-old traditional use by communities of their forests and secured the colonial governments control over the forestry.[2] The act of 1865 empowered the British government to declare any land covered with trees as a government forest and make rules to manage it.[citation needed]