The Unquiet Woods

by Guha, Ramachandra

• ISBN13: 9780520222359
• ISBN10: 0520222350
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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