This book is about Madeleine Slade (1892-1982) and Catherine Mary
Heilemann (1901-1982), two English associates of Mohandas K.
(Mahatma) Gandhi (1869-1948), known in India as Mira Behn and
Sarala Behn. The odysseys of these women present a
counternarrative to the forces of imperialism, colonialism,
capitalism, and globalized development. The book examines their
extraordinary journey to India to work with Gandhi and their roles
in India’s independence movement, their spiritual strivings,
their independent work in the Himalayas, and most importantly,
their contribution to the evolution of Gandhian philosophy of
socio-economic reconstruction and environmental conservation in the
present Indian state of Uttarakhand. The author shows that these
women developed ideas and practices that drew from an extensive
intellectual terrain that cannot be limited to Gandhi’s work. She
delineates directions in which Gandhian thought and experiments in
rural development work and visions of a new society evolved through
the lives, activism, and written contributions of these two women.
Their thought and practice generated a new cultural consciousness
on sustainability that had a key influence in environmental debates
in India and beyond and were responsible for two of the most
important environmental movements of India and the world: the
Chipko Movement or the movement against commercial green felling of
trees by hugging them, and the protest against the Tehri high dam
on the Bhagirathi River. To this day, their teachings and
philosophies constitute a useful and significant contribution to
the search for and implementation of global ideas of ecological
conservation and human development.Â
General
| Imprint: |
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
|
| Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
| Series: |
Ecology and Ethics |
| Release date: |
June 2023 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Bidisha Mallik
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
545 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2022 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-095433-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
3-03-095433-1 |
| Barcode: |
9783030954338 |
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