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Garhwal Himalaya: A Study in Historical Perspective

Ajay Singh Rawat - Garhwal (India : Region) - 2002 - 340 pages
Reconstruction of the political and administrative history of Garhwal during the period 1358 to 1947.
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The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya

Ramachandra Guha - Nature - 2000 - 267 pages
A short history of the Chipko movement in India, one of the world's most famous examples of a grassroots environmental protest movement. This is a revised and expanded edition ...
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Forest Futures: Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas

Antje Linkenbach - Nature - 2007 - 356 pages
"Antje Linkenbach persuasively argues that global representation took away narrative control from local actors and removed Chipko from the specificity of its locale, from its ...
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The Kingdom of Gods, Uttarakhand

Giriraj Shah - History - 1975 - 158 pages
On Kumaun Himalayas; a cultural perspective.
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Towards Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mountain Regions

Vishwambhar Prasad Sati - Science - 2013 - 205 pages
Sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems are far-reaching and burning issues in the wake of high growth of population, low production and per ha yield of crops and depletion of ...
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The Ramachandra Guha Omnibus

Ramachandra Guha - History - 2005 - 896 pages
This omnibus edition brings together three seminal works by one of India's best-known historians and environmentalists Ramachandra Guha 'The Unquiet Woods', 'A Global History ...
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