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This book examines contemporary environmental issues and movements in independent India on the one hand, and the development of Hindu conservative ideology and politics on the other. It includes the first thorough investigation of Anna Hazare’s movement in Maharashtra.
Mukul Sharma argues that these two social currents—environmental conservation and Hindu politics—have forged bonds which reveal the hijacking of environmentalism by conservative ...
This book is a collection of field reports on the unfolding of environmental concerns in rural India during recent years. It portrays the complexity of issues and responses that are included under the umbrella of green politics. The book examines issues relating to marginal ecologies such as diara, khadar and ravines, which have been witness to gross misuse of natural resources, and whose concerns have so far not received much attention from mainstream media. It ...
In an era of free market economic growth fuelled by rapid globalisation, the poor, the underprivileged and the disadvantaged are often sacrificed or forgotten in the name of progress. This is especially true for countries where growth is measured in terms of quantitative indicators; and where the real creators of wealth—the marginalised—are largely ignored. Such progress therefore extracts a huge cost and those who pay the price have little opportunity to ...