Commonwealth Forestry and Environmental History is intended to enable conversations between environmental historians, foresters, sustainable development practitioners, policy makers and those keen on understanding contemporary politics brought on by concerns about climate change. This collection of 19 essays on forestry and environmental change in the erstwhile colonies of the British.Vinita Damodaran is a historian of modern India, interested in sustainable development dialogues in the global South, particularly in questions of environmental change, identity and resistance in eastern India and has used historical records to understand climate change in the Indian Ocean World. Rohan D’Souza is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University (Japan).