Padma Vibhushan Sunderlal Bahuguna began the Chipko Andolan with Chandi Prasad Bhatt and Gaura Devi in the 1970s. Twenty years later, he spearheaded the Anti-Tehri Dam movement. "A sort of Chipko ...

One of India’s earliest environmental movements, the Chipko Movement, set the stage for grassroots activism. In 1964, Gandhian activist Chandi Prasad Bhatt founded the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal ...