Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. The Encounter 7
7. The Childhood of an Activist 15
8. Going Underground 29
9. The Short Career of an Activist Politician 41
10. Meeting Mira Behn 47
11. Marriage and the Parvatiya Navjeevan Ashram 65
12. Embracing the Trees 81
13. Modes of Chipko Resistance 99
14. A Permanent Economy 121
15. Chipko Ecology 137
16. Srinagar to Kohima 149
17. Protesting the Tehri Dam 171
18. Social Ecology, Religion, and the Tehri Protest 187
19. Against the Tide 205
20. Some Critical Dates in the History of Modern India and the Activism of Sunderlal Bahuguna 227
21. Arguments of the Petitioners in the Public Interest Litigation against the Tehri Dam 233
22. Notes 237
23. Selected Bibliography 253
24. Index 261