01642nam a2200181 4500 20260609133203.0 260609b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 978-936989343-0 Eng GE199.I4 G843 2024 Ramachandra Guha Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism New Haven ; London Yale University Press, 2024 xxxi, 407 p 24 cm 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. ddc 1 AT 0 0 ddc 0 0 REF DSCA DSCA DISPLAY 2026-06-01 0 720 2462 2026-06-09 13:32:45 2026-06-09 AT 6892 6892