Title: Ecology is permanent economy : the activism and environmental philosophy of Sunderlal Bahuguna /
Authors: James, George Alfred, 1946-
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Bahuguna, Sunderlal,; Environmentalists India Biography.; Environmentalism India Philosophy.; Chipko movement.; Tehri Dam (India)
Contents: The encounter -- The childhood of an activist -- Going underground -- The short career of an activist politician -- Meeting Mira Behn -- Marriage and the Parvatiya Navjeevan Ashram -- Embracing the trees -- Modes of Chipko resistance -- A permanent economy -- Chipko ecology: shallow or deep? -- Srinagar to Kohima: an educational mission -- Protesting the Tehri dam -- Social ecology, religion, and the Tehri protest -- Against the tide: Bahuguna's philosophy of life, religion, and nature -- Appendixes: 1. Some critical dates in the history of modern India and the activism of Sunderlal Bahuguna -- 2. Arguments of the petitioners in the public interest litigation against the Tehri dam.