02036nam a22002417a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100120008308200220009510000190011724500390013626000360017530000330021136500530024452013220029765000290161965000350164865000380168370000210172170000260174270000260176820221102152957.0221102b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9788178246482  cAL  aEnglish  223a333.751bPATC  aShekhar Pathak  aChipko Movement: A Peoples History  aRanikhetbPermanent Blackc2022  axvii,371 p.bPBc21x13.5 cm.  a5123b₹476.00c₹d₹595.00e20%f22-10-2022  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.
  aEnvironmental protection  aNature--Effect of human beings  aConservation of natural resources  aPATHAK (Shekhar)  aCHAUDHRY (Manisha) Tr  aGUHA (Ramachandra) Ed