Ramachandra guha gandhi biography fisheries

About the Book:

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’.

This article explores the history and historiography of Gandhi's relationships with those he called "my Christian friends" during his years in South Africa .

For the capaciousness of his vision and the generosity of his spirit, Nelson Mandela has sometimes been compared to Mahatma Gandhi.

The Gadgil Report closely examined different sectors of economic activity: agriculture, animal husbandry, forests, fisheries, power, industry.

Wildlife, and fisheries.

She worked for long periods in Santiniketan, where she taught, translated some of Tagore's plays, and co-authored a major biography of Gandhi's.

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 gained currency as a term, 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