Talk:Reserved forests and protected forests of India

"Tribal"

I find the use of this word offensive. Having known a number of people who had family reunions involving hundreds of people, many of them living relatively close together, I didn't think of it as setting them apart from the general population in any way, nor did they. Usually, it was simply a matter of not wanting to leave a pleasant location, combined with one or more people who lived long enough to have great, great-great, and great-great-great grandchildren. We all like nicely forested and pleasantly watered environments, but large family clans living in or near forests don't differ from their neighbors in any significant way. The word suggests insularity, primitiveness, exclusion, incivility, and many obsolete, pejorative, and bigoted notions, among which, I hasten to add, are those mentioned in the article (as it is) of needing help, needing education, avoiding modernity, and demanding government intervention. To do harm to the environment is an inevitable consequence of being human and wanting to reproduce without bounds, but to manage -- to minimize -- such harm is simply one reason we live in civilized societies and consent to abide by laws, relying on well-chosen law-makers to protect us from ourselves. What I find appalling is the people who take advantage of the privacy of forests to commit crimes. But I suspect this more often reflects a psychological bent towards criminality than relatedness to families. I hate to admit it, but my step-father was a Russian prince who penetrated the Amazon rainforest to sell guns to some of the world's most violent people. In my opinion, he was mentally ill, but he wanted money and found a singularly nefarious, but profitable way to get it. At the time, he was an isolated, resentful, brain-damaged, egotistical man without friends or relations (other than his mother, from whom he was alienated). He had a crown and ermine on his coat of arms, but its validity had been usurped, by a notoriously violent revolution. His attitude towards others was that the whole world, except for a few, was nothing but a swarm of despicable peasants. That's not tribalism, that's the exact opposite. 172.56.26.17 (talk) 16:55, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

History

First time term 'reserve forest' was used was 1860s in Bori near Pachmarhi, ergo, information in the introduction to this article is inaccurate 72.68.72.135 (talk) 16:14, 29 June 2015 (UTC) R.E.D.