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Subjects:

Environmentalists -- India -- Biography.
Environmentalism -- Philosophy -- India.
Chipko movement.
Tehri Dam (India).
Bahuguna, Sunderlal, 1927-.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 The Encounter""; ""Chapter 2 The Childhood of an Activist""; ""Chapter 3 Going Underground""; ""Chapter 4 The Short Career of an Activist Politician""; ""Chapter 5 Meeting Mira Behn""; ""Chapter 6 Marriage and the Parvatiya Navjeevan Ashram""; ""Chapter 7 Embracing the Trees""; ""Chapter 8 Modes of Chipko Resistance""; ""Chapter 9 A Permanent Economy""; ""Chapter 10 Chipko Ecology: Shallow or Deep?""; ""Chapter 11 Srinagar to Kohima: An Educational Mission""; ""Chapter 12 Protesting the Tehri Dam""
""Chapter 13 Social Ecology, Religion, and the Tehri Protest""""The Dam and the Hindu Right""; ""The Rising Tide and the Judgment of the Supreme Court""; ""Chapter 14 Against the Tide: Bahuguna�s Philosophy of Life, Religion, and Nature""; ""Bahuguna and Gandhi""; ""Bahuguna, Gandhi, and Ecology""; ""Bahuguna and Indian Spirituality""; ""Appendix 1 Some Critical Dates in the History of Modern India and the Activism of Sunderlal Bahuguna""; ""Appendix 2 Arguments of the Petitioners in the Public Interest Litigation against the Tehri Dam""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4619-3540-7
1-4384-4674-8

OCLC:

853454277