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439 Pages·2024·2.3 MB·English
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by Ramachandra Guha| 2024| 439 pages| 2.3| English

About Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism

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, Radhakamal Mukerjee, 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.Spanning more than a century of Indian history and decidedly transnational in reference, Speaking with Nature offers rich resources for considering the threat of climate change today.

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Author:Ramachandra Guha
Publication Year:2024
ISBN:9780300278538
Pages:439
Language:English
File Size:2.3
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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