Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism

From one of the world’s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro-American world

By the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environmental consciousness. They are, as it were, “too poor to be green.” In this deeply researched book, Ramachandra Guha challenges this narrative by revealing a virtually unknown prehistory of the global movement set far outside Europe or America. Lon...