Concise, yet comprehensive in its coverage, this monograph is basically an attempt to provide the reader an updated summary of India’s forest resources from diverse view points—present status, importance for country’s economy, sectoral problems, and developmental programmes with a special focus on areas such as JFM, community participation, agro forestry and social forestry. Not only that, it also provides all the necessary information related to constitutional provisions and legal framework for protection and management of forests, besides making an overview of the evolution and development of forest policy from British to the modern times. The book closes with an explanatory note on forest institutions, research and administration in India, appended with a reproduction of the recommendations of the national Forest Commission, Govt. of India, 2006.