Various environmental movements and their social Impactsin India: A review
The present article systematically analyzes the different environmental movements in India and looks at how these movements developed, what their prime goals were, and how they shaped the political and social environment towards the protection of the environment. This article investigates how “people’s movements” have defined environmentalism in India, beginning with the 1973’s Chipko Movement, when people began to hug trees in protest against the illicit felling of forests.