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041			_aEnglish
082			_223 _a333.751 _bPATC
100			_aShekhar Pathak _960824
245			_aChipko Movement: A Peoples History
260			_aRanikhet _bPermanent Black _c2022
300			_axvii,371 p. _bPB _c21x13.5 cm.
365			_a5123 _b₹476.00 _c₹ _d₹595.00 _e20% _f22-10-2022
520			_aThis book by Shekhar Pathak, says Ramachandra Guha in his Introduction, “is the definitive history of the Chipko Movement” In India, modern environmentalism was inaugurated by the Chipko Movement, which began in 1973. Because it was led by Gandhians, included women participants, occurred in “spiritual” Himalayan regions, and used innovatively non-violent techniques of protest, the Chipko attracted international attention. It also led to a major debate on Indian forest policy and the destructive consequences of commercialisation. Because of Chipko, clear-felling was stopped and India began to pay attention to the needs of an ecological balance which sustained forests and the communities within them. In academic and policy-making circles it fuelled a wider debate on sustainable development – on whether India could afford to imitate the West’s resource-intensive and capital-intensive ways of life. Chipko’s historians have hitherto focused on its two major leaders, Chandi Prasad Bhatt and Sunderlal Bahuguna. The voices of “subalterns” – ordinary men and women such as Gaura Devi who made Chipko what it was – have not been recorded. Pathak places Chipko in its grassroots contexts. He shows that in leadership and ideology Chipko was diverse and never a singular Gandhian movement.
650			_aEnvironmental protection _960825
650			_aNature--Effect of human beings _960826
650			_aConservation of natural resources _960827
700			_aPATHAK (Shekhar) _960817
700			_aCHAUDHRY (Manisha) Tr _960818
700			_aGUHA (Ramachandra) Ed _960819
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