Presenter(s)

    Carla Pettiford

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    Presentation: 1:15-2:30, Kennedy Union Ballroom

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    Description

    ChandiPrasad Bhatt, an environmentalist along with SundergalBahuguaand GuanaDevi, were the prominent leaders of the movement. Chandiin 1964, established the Dasholi, Gram, Swarajya, Mandal (DGSM), a cooperative organization dedicated to improving the lives of villagers; this included providing employment close to their homes in forest-based industries and fighting against flawed policies through Gandhian non-violent Satyagraha (firmness in a good cause, or the law of self-suffering). These programs were specifically targeted to women as participants which was a practical move since the women were the ones who gathered the wood, and water for cooking, and had a spiritual and physical relationship with nature that provided for their families daily. There was a synthesis created between practical field knowledge and the latest scientific innovations for the conservation of the environment and ecology in the region. This would be a sustaining practice that would change the way the forests were handled for decades to come.

    Publication Date

    4-17-2024

    Project Designation

    Course Project - HST 339 01

    Primary Advisor

    Haimanti Roy

    Primary Advisor's Department

    History

    Keywords

    Stander Symposium, College of Arts and Sciences

    Institutional Learning Goals

    Scholarship; Diversity; Critical Evaluation of Our Times

    The Chipko Movement: Voices of Indian Women Heard

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