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020 _a9788178242774
082 _a333.7509542
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100 _aGuha, Ramachandra
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245 _aThe unquiet woods: ecological change and peasant resistance in the Himalaya
250 _aTwentieth anniversary ed.
260 _c2010
_bPermanent Black
_aRanikhet
300 _axxvii, 250 p.
365 _aINR
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520 _aPopular initiatives to halt deforestation in the Himalaya, such as the Chipko movement, are globally renowned. It is less well known that these movements have a history stretching back more than a hundred years. A proper understanding of this long duration within the forests of submontane North India required the marriage of two scholarly traditions: the sociology of peasant protest and the ecologically oriented study of history. (http://www.orientblackswan.com/display.asp?categoryID=1&isbn=978-81-7824-277-4)
650 _aChipko movement -- History
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650 _aChipko movement -- India -- Uttar Khand Region -- History
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650 _aForest management -- India -- Uttar Khand Region
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650 _aForest policy -- India -- Uttar Khand Region
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650 _aHuman ecology -- India -- Uttar Khand Region
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650 _aPeasant uprisings -- India -- Uttar Khand Region -- History.
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942 _cBK
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