Legends in Gandhian social activism : Mira Behn and Sarala Behn : addressing environmental issues by dissolving gender and colonial barriers / Bidisha Mallik.
Mallik, Bidisha, author.
2022
GE195.9
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Title Legends in Gandhian social activism : Mira Behn and Sarala Behn : addressing environmental issues by dissolving gender and colonial barriers / Bidisha Mallik.
Author Mallik, Bidisha, author.
ISBN 9783030954314 (electronic bk.)
3030954315 (electronic bk.)
3030954307
9783030954307
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95431-4
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-95431-4 doi
Call Number GE195.9
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.720922
Summary 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 Indias 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 Gandhis 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. .
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 28, 2022).
Series Ecology and ethics.
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Part I
1. Voices of Justice and Equality in Struggles for Change
2. Science, Technology, and the Discourse on Development: Mira Behn and Sarala Behn in a Colonial World and in Gandhis India
3. Mira Behn: Environment and Development
4. Sarala Behn: Nai Talim, Social Transformation, and the Rise of Local Womens Power
Part II
5. Crucial Roles of Mira Behn and Sarala Behn in the Emergence of the Sarvodaya Environmental Movements
6. The Bridge Builders: The Integrative Philosophy of Mira Behn and Sarala Behn.

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