This book explores two principal contradictions in environmental politics in India—between conservation and large-scale development projects, and between short-term electoral politics and long-term imperatives of environmental conservation. The Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) in Himachal Pradesh, north-western India, is home to the western Tragopan—an endangered pheasant. It shares its habitat with the local population living on the park's fringes. In ...
