The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya

Front Cover
University of California Press, Feb 2, 2000 - Business & Economics - 244 pages
Expanded Edition

This new, expanded edition of The Unquiet Woods, Ramachandra Guha's pathbreaking study of peasant movements against commercial forestry, offers a new epilogue that brings the story of Himalayan social protest up-to-date, reflecting the Chipko movement's continuing influence in the wider world. A new appendix charts the progress of environmental history in India. The bibliography and index have been revised and updated.
 

Contents

A SOCIOLOGY OF DOMINATION
1
REBELLION AS CUSTOM
4
THE MOUNTAINS AND THEIR PEOPLE
9
SCIENTIFIC FORESTRY AND SOCIAL
35
RAJA AND PRAJA IN TEHRI
62
EARLY RESISTANCE TO FOREST MANAGEMENT
69
I
72
THE KISAN ANDOLAN 19448
79
288
125
100
128
28
140
SOCIAL HISTORY OF
152
THE AGENDA OF SCIENTIFIC FORESTRY
178
PEASANTS AND HISTORY
185
Epilogue
197
Appendix
211

ELEMENTARY ASPECTS OF CUSTOMARY
89
14
91
Paternalism from above and from below
96
21
103
Bibliography
223
Index
240
162
241
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2000)

Ramachandra Guha is a historian and journalist living in Bangalore, India.

Bibliographic information