Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism (Record no. 6892)

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International Standard Book Number 978-936989343-0
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Classification number GE199.I4 G843 2024
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Personal name Ramachandra Guha
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Title Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Haven ; London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Yale University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2024
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Extent xxxi, 407 p
Dimensions 24 cm
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Target audience note By the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environmental consciousness. They are, as it were, 'too poor to be green'. In this deeply researched book, Ramachandra Guha challenges this narrative by revealing a virtually unknown prehistory of the global movement set far outside Europe or America. Long before the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and well before climate change gained currency as a term, ten remarkable individuals wrote with deep insight about the dangers of environmental abuse from within an Indian context. In strikingly contemporary language, Rabindranath Tagore, Radha Kamal Mukherjee, J.C. Kumarappa, Patrick Geddes, Albert and Gabrielle Howard, Mira, Verrier Elwin, K.M. Munshi and M. Krishnan wrote about the forest and the wild, soil and water, urbanization and industrialization. Positing the idea of what Guha calls 'livelihood environmentalism' in contrast to the 'full-stomach environmentalism' of the affluent world, these writers, activists and scientists played a pioneering role in shaping global conversations about humanity's relationship with nature.<br/>
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