Environmental Movements of India

Chipko, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Navdanya

Krishna Mallick

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040786406
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Biological Sciences

In her detailed retelling of three iconic movements in India, Professor Emerita Krishna Mallick, PhD, gives hope to grassroots activists working toward environmental justice. Each movement deals with a different crisis and affected population: Chipko, famed for tree-hugging women in the Himalayan forest; Narmada, for villagers displaced by a massive dam; and Navdanya, for hundreds of thousands of farmers whose livelihoods were lost to a compact made by the Indian government and neoliberal purveyors of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Relentlessly researched, Environmental Movements of India: Chipko, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Navdanya presents these movements in a framework that explores Hindu Vedic wisdom, as well as Development Ethics, Global Environment Ethics, Feminist Care Ethics, and the Capability Approach. At a moment when the climate threatens populations who live closest to nature – and depend upon its fodder for heat, its water for life, and its seeds for food – Mallick shows how nonviolent action can give poor people an effective voice.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Glossary
• Introduction: Three Grassroots Movements That Made a Global Impact
• 1 Historical and Cultural Contexts in India
• 2 Chipko (Hug the Trees) Movement
• 3 Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA): Save the Narmada
• 4 Navdanya (Nine Seeds) Movement
• 5 Moral Implications of Environmental Movements
• 6 Hindu Ethics and Ecology
• Conclusion: The Symbiosis of Natural Resources and Local Needs
• Index