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The British colonial government was leading the large-scale deforestation of forests for commercial purposes for expansion of their empire. Exploiting the forest wealth while denying the natural rights of the tribal people. Any earlier attempt towards conservation was intended to meet the future requirements of the imperial power. The timber requirements for Royal Navy and Railway lines, the Colonial government strategically expanded forest cover under their jurisdiction. They started forest conservancy by implementing forest laws over the years of their administration for extraction of fine wood. The Indian Forest Act 1865 was enacted by the British to create a state monopoly in the forests and to ensure proper forest management. During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, most of the forest areas of the country were constituted either into reserved forests or protected forests. It effects on Traditional Methods of Forest Management like shifting cultivation, collection of minor forest products, fire wood and grazing. Due to this reason many tribes were revolt against British Administration.