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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463351103321

Autore

James George Alfred <1946->

Titolo

Ecology is permanent economy [[electronic resource] ] : the activism and environmental philosophy of Sunderlal Bahuguna / / George A. James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2013

ISBN

1-4619-3540-7

1-4384-4674-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

333.72092

B

Soggetti

Environmentalists - India

Environmentalism - Philosophy - India

Chipko movement

Electronic books.

Tehri Dam (India)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""