Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

SWINGING SILENCE: TREES, BODY, SOUL AND THE CHIPKO MOVEMENT

R. Mishra

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 Chipko has been considered as an environmental movement to protect the trees in the Himalayas. the immediate reason behind the origin of Chipko movement was to stop commercial cutting of trees, but as the word connotes ‘Chipko’ describes the sentiment ‘Cut me down before you cut down a tree’ that portray a deep–seated suspicion among the mountain communities of the outsiders and the distant governments that they see as trying to steal their forest resources. In the present paper, the main aim is to figure out the pragmatic relationship established among trees, human body and soul via tree hugging gesture that further helped local forest dwellers to sustain forests and trees. 

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R. Mishra, SWINGING SILENCE: TREES, BODY, SOUL AND THE CHIPKO MOVEMENT, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾8 | August‾2017

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