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Restoration of Urban Water Commons: Navigating Social-Ecological Fault Lines and Inequities by Sen, A., Unnikrishnan, H., Nagendra, H.

“…The construction and maintenance of the tanks was overseen by local chieftains, and supported by local communities, further managed by caste-based and gender-based systems of manual labor. …”
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Formation and recovery of secondary forests in India: a particular reference to western Ghats in South India by Bhat, D.M., Murali, K.S., Ravindranath, N.H.

“…In the pre colonial period, hunter gatherers, shifting cultivators and settled cultivators were the dominant users of forest land, with some limited timber felling by local chieftains and kings. There was limited secondary forest formation following extractive activities by the communities and the State. …”
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