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The Chipko Movement: A People’s History

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Author: Shekhar Pathak

9788178245553 | PB | pp. 390 | 2020 | Permanent Black, Ashoka University

Modern environmentalism in India was inaugurated by the Chipko Movement which began in 1973. This according to Ramachandra Guha “is the definitive history of the Chipko Movement”.

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Paperback | 390 | 2020 | Permanent Black, Ashoka University

Modern environmentalism in India was inaugurated by the Chipko Movement which began in 1973. This according to Ramachandra Guha "is the definitive history of the Chipko Movement".

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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.

Every scholar and serious student of Indian environmentalism will need to engage with the empirical richness and analytic solidity of this book.

Author:

Shekhar Pathak
Binding:

Paperback
Pages:

390
Year of Publication:

2020
Publisher:

Permanent Black, Ashoka University
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

The author is the quintessential historian-as-fieldworker: he has lived in the many valleys where the Chipko protests took place, studied their landscapes, and talked at length to protesters and communities. He has trawled through local newspapers of the 1970s and 1980s and conducted oral interviews with the movement’s leaders and foot soldiers.

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