Abstract
This study examines the processes by which modern forestry was established and spread in the British Empire. In the first part of this study, I observe the development of forest management system in India and other colonies, and also seek to indicate that Continental European forestry had an influential impact on it. In the early 20th century, many Indian foresters found a few common questions like forest fire and shifting cultivation as particular elements of tropical forestry. Through the debate on the effects of fire protection in North-eastern India, they began to recognize the importance of fire to sal regeneration. After the First World War, the Empire Forestry Conferences were held to discuss about forest resource management in the empire. At these conferences, knowledge and management practices in various colonies were exchanged and new hybrid forestry practices were produced as compromises with the European forestry model.
