ENVIRONMENT,DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIETY IN CONTEPORARY INDIA

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Environment, Development and Society in Contemporary India: An Introduction provides basic readings in the current debate on environment and development and its impact on people and society. It can be used by teachers and students at, both the undergraduate and postgraduate level to get a basic understanding on issues of burning importance in the contemporary Indian context. The book will also be useful as a reference material to NGOs,research institutes and policy makers. The themes covered in this book are: • Environmental history (particularly concentrating on the modern period), water conflicts and policies, Green Revolution debate, forest, wildlife and people, pollution, industrial ecology, nuclear safety, environmental movements, sustainable development, climate change and ecological debt. • This is the first book, which offers a wide range of progressive perspectives on environment and development, and its impact on the society, for example privatisation of water and

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Archana Prasad is a Reader at the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. Dr Prasad is also an Expert Member of the National Tiger Conservation Authority and an Executive Committe Member of the All India Peoples’ Science Network. Earlier, she was a Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library from 2001-05. Some of her major publications include Environmentalism and the Left (2004), Against Ecological Romanticism: Verrier Elwin and the Making of an Anti-Modern Tribal Identity (2003) and Tribals and Globalisation: Exploring the Potential of Non-Timber Forest Produce in Central India (2005). Table of Contents Preface PART ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction PART TWO: ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT IN INDIAN HISTORY 2. Tribes, Foresy,and Social Formation in Early South India - Rajan Gurukkal 3. Forests, Pastoralists and Agrarian Society in Mughal India - Chetan Singh 4. Imperialism and Ecology - John Bellamy Foster 5. Reinterpreting Tribal Survival: The Baiga of the Central Provinces 1730-1900 - Archana Prasad 6. Damming the Mahanadi River: The Emergence of Multi-Purpose River Valley Development in India (1943-46) - Rohan D’Souza 7. Shifting Cultivation in the Garo Hills: North-East India (1860-1970) - Bela Malik 8. Environment and Social History: Kalahandi, 1800-1950 - Biswamoy Pati PART THREE: MODERN DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA 9. Water Privatisation in India - Vandana Shiva 10. ‘Million Revolts’ in the Making - Biksham Gujja, KJ Joy, Suhas Paranjape, Vinod Goud and Shruti Vispute 11.The Silent Valley Crusade - M K Prasad Section II: Green Revolution and Agricultural Biodiversity 12. Growth and Decline: Fifty Years of Indian Agriculture - Devender Sharma 13. Green Revolution and the American Involvement in Indian Agricultural Research - Dinesh Abrol 14. Strategies for Sustainable Increase in Food Production - Suman Sahai Section III: Forests Wildlife and Co-Existence 15. Evolution of Forest Policies and Spread of Joint Forest Management in India - Sudha P and Ravindranath NH 16. Uttarakhand: From Rights Holders to ‘Beneficiaries’? - Madhu Sarin 17. Sacred Groves for the New Century - K Ulhas Karanth 18. Protected Areas and Social Justice: The view from South Asia - Ashish Kothari Section IV: Industrial and Urban Ecology 19. Choked Cities - Anumita Roy Chowdhry 20. Sustainable Transport Systems: Linkages between Environmental Issues, Public Transport, Non-Motorised Transport and Safety - Dinesh Mohan and Geetam Tiwari 21. Bhopal’s Toxic Legacy: Impact of the Gas Leak Disaster on Health and Environment - ND Jayaprakash 22. Issues of Nuclear Safety - A Gopalakrishnan Section V: Environmental Movements and Protest 23. Ideologies of Environmentalism - Ramachandra Guha and Madhav Gadgil 24. Environmentalism and the Left - Archana Prasad 25. Saffronising Green - Mukul sharma PART FOUR: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT ISSUES 26. Our Common Future and Ten Years after Rio - Gro Harlem Brundtland 27. The Call of Climate Justice: Global warming and Non-Global Response - CE Karunakaran 28. The Ecological Debt in the context of Sustainability - Karen Nansen Bibliographical Essay Notes on Contributors Index