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Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism
By (author) Ramachandra Guha
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From one of the world’s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro-American world  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, 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, this book offers rich resources for considering the threat of climate change today.
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Publisher | Yale University Press
Published date | 28 Jan 2025
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 440
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
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ISBN | 978-0-3002-7853-8
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