<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Indian Forest Act, 1927 was largely based on previous Indian Forest Acts implemented under the British . The most famous one was the Indian Forest Act of 1878 . Both the 1878 act and the 1927 one sought to consolidate and reserve the areas having forest cover, or significant wildlife, to regulate movement and transit of forest produce, and duty leviable on timber and other forest produce . It also defines the procedure to be followed for declaring an area to be a Reserved Forest, a Protected Forest or a Village Forest . It defines what is a forest offence, what are the acts prohibited inside a Reserved Forest, and penalties leviable on violation of the provisions of the Act . </P> <P> The Indian Forests Act of 1865 extended the British Colonial claims over forests in India . 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 . 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 . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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