The Unquiet Woods

Expanded Edition This new, expanded edition ofThe Unquiet Woods, Ramachandra Guha's pathbreaking study of peasant movements against commercial forestry, offers a new epilogue that brings the story of Himalayan social protest up-to-date, reflecting the Chipko movement's continuing influence in the wider world. A new appendix charts the progress of environmental history in India. The bibliography and index have been revised and updated.

Preface to the Expanded Edition

x

Preface to the First Edition

xi

Acknowledgements

xvii

Glossary

xix

Abbreviations

xxi

Map of Uttarakhand

xxii

A Sociology Of Domination and Resistance

1

(8)

Two Approaches to the Study of Lower- Class Protest

1

(4)

The Landscape of Resistance

5

(4)

The Mountains and Their People

9

(26)

Political history

10

(1)

Social Structure

11

(16)

Caste

11

(3)

Agrarian relations

14

(7)

Community traditions

21

(1)

Role of women

21

(1)

State and Society

22

(3)

The `begar' system

25

(2)

The Cultural Ecology of the Himalayans

27

(8)

Forests and social institutions in the indigenous system

28

(7)

Scientific Forestry and Social Change

35

(27)

The Forests of Uttarakhand

35

(2)

The Growth and Development of State Forestry in Uttarakhand

37

(11)

State forestry in Tehri Garhwal

39

(4)

Forestry in Kumaun division

43

(5)

Scientific Forestry and Social Control

48

(11)

Alienation of humans from nature

55

(4)

The Agenda of Scientific Forestry

59

(3)

Rebellion as Custom

62

(37)

Raja and Praja in Tehri

62

(7)

The king as `Bolanda' Badrinath

63

(2)

The motif of the wicked official

65

(2)

The dhandak

67

(2)

Early Resistance to Forest Management

69

(3)

The Dhandak at Rawain 1930

72

(7)

The Kisan Andolan, 1944--8

79

(10)

Peasants and parties

87

(2)

Elementary Aspects of Customary Rebellion

89

(10)

Paternalism from above and from below

96

(3)

Rebellion as Confrontation

99

(39)

Early Resistance to Forced Labour

100

(4)

Early Resistance to Forest Management

104

(6)

The Utar and Forest Movements of 1921

110

(10)

The Forest Movement of 1921

114

(6)

Social Protest: 1921--42

120

(5)

From Custom to Confrontation

125

(6)

Nationalism and the Vanguard Party

131

(7)

The March of Commercial Forestry

138

(14)

Ecological Change and the Money-Order Economy

143

(5)

Fragments of a Pristine Consciousness: `Community' Management

148

(4)

Chipko: Social History of an `Environmental' Movement

152

(33)

Chipko: its Origins and Development

153

(12)

The background

153

(2)

The 1970 flood

155

(2)

Mandal

157

(1)

Reni

158

(1)

The government steps in

159

(2)

Chipko spreads to Tehri

161

(1)

Chipko in Kumaun

162

(1)

Chipko returns to Chamoli

163

(2)

The Badyargarh and olan

165

(7)

The andolan

166

(2)

Chipko and popular consciousness

168

(2)

Chipko in a history of protest

170

(2)

Custom and Confrontation in Chipko

172

(5)

Chipko as an Environmental Movement

177

(8)

The widening of Chipko

178

(1)

Three environmental philosophies

179

(6)

Peasants and `History'

185

(12)

The Unquiet Woods: Forest Conflicts In Two Continents

185

(6)

Against Eurocentricism

191

(6)

Epilogue

197

(14)

Appendix

211

(12)

Bibliography

223

(17)

Index

240

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