ENVIRONMENTAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS: A REVIEW

India’s environmental movement is at crossroad. On the one hand, there is a greater
acceptance of our concerns, but on the other hand, there is also growing resistance against the
required action. Grassroot and radical environmental movements have played important role in
global environmental politics. While reviewing major environmental resistance movements in
India such as, Chipko, Narmada Bachav Andolan, Tehari Dam Compaign, Baliapal and Chilka
Bachav Andolan etc, it is observed that, they differ from one another on the grounds of critical
analyses, strategies, ethical motives and political impacts