The Hour of the Fox: Tropical Forests, the World Bank, and Indigenous People in Central India

An assessment of the failure of a major project in tropical forest management and development in India's largest remaining forest, the Bastar. Planned by international forestry experts and implemented in 1975 by the World Bank and the Indian government, the project sought to industrialize a backward region and to deal with the problem of national balance of payments. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.