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How did the popular movements help us to understand the nature of environmental crisis in post-colonial India?

  • UPSC 2022
  • Economic Development and Political Change

Popular environmental movements — Chipko, Silent Valley, Appiko, the Narmada Bachao Andolan, the Tehri protests — function here as evidence, not just narrative: they reveal what the post-colonial environmental crisis actually was.

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  • The Crisis Was Primarily One of Livelihood and Survival, Not Aesthetics
  • The Crisis Was Structurally Gendered
  • The Crisis Was a Direct Consequence of the Post-Colonial "Development" Model
  • The Crisis Outpaced Ordinary Politics, Forcing a Turn to Law and the Constitution
  • The Limits of What Movements Reveal

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