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In the face of rising global climatic concerns, how do you contextualize the relevance of Chipko Movement and its Gandhian tone? Answer analytically.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 20 marks
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Chipko began on 24 April 1973 at Mandal in Chamoli, when villagers organised by Chandi Prasad Bhatt's Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (founded 1964 at Gopeshwar) stopped a sports-goods contractor from felling ash trees the village itself had been refused. Contextualising it for a climate-changed world requires separating what in its Gandhian tone is transferable from…

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  • Anatomy of the Gandhian tone
  • What genuinely transfers
  • Where the analogy fails
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