Subject(s): Forest policy -- Human ecology -- Politics and government -- Political ecology -- Ecological nationalisms- claiming nature for making history -- Regional natures, nation and empire : Environmental history, spice trade and state in south India, debates on custom, utility and rights in nature, contested forest in north west Pakistan- Bureaucracy between ecological and national and realities of nations frontier -- Competing nationalisms : Indigenous forest- rights, discourses and resistance in Chotanagpur, nature and politics in Uttarakhand, indigenous natures- forest and community dynamics in Meghalaya, sacred forests of Kodagu- ecological value and social role -- Commodified nature and national visions :Knowledge against state- local perceptions of government interventions in fishery in Kerala, shifting cultivation, image and development in Bangladesh, forest management in Pukhtum community, national parks and national identity in Bardia national park in western Nepal