Arpit Nayak
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Arpit Nayak is an associate editor at Encyclopedia Britannica. He has a background in business journalism and stock market news, and has a degree in English literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He also runs a small community-led cultural society in his hometown of Shillong and dabbles in graphic design and photography.
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Forest societies in India, groups of people in the country who live in or near forests and rely at least partly on them for such resources as food, fuel, and commercial forest products, such as timber. As of 2019 about 300 million people in India—more than a fifth of its population—depended on its…
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