Dr. Akhil Kumar Gupta

@svvv.edu.in

Assistant Professor, History/Social Sciences
Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, Madhya Pradesh

Dr. Akhil Kumar Gupta


               Download Compact PDF  
https://researchid.co/agupta2021

RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of Railway, Women’s Studies, Environmental History, Folklore & Oral Tradition, and Historiography.
29

Scopus Publications

Scopus Publications

  • Why Gandhi matters
    Gandhi S Moral Politics, 2017
  • Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation: A third world critique
    Ethics of the Environment, 2017
  • Saboteurs in the forest: Colonialism and peasant resistance in the Indian Himalaya
    Forrest D. Colburn
    Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, 2016
  • The most original gandhi since gandhi
    Ramachandra Guha
    Ramchandra Gandhi the Man and His Philosophy, 2016
  • Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation: A third world critique
    Future of Nature Documents of Global Change, 2013
  • Mahatma Gandhi and the environmental movement in India
    Environmental Movements in Asia, 2013
  • This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India
    Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha
    This Fissured Land an Ecological History of India, 2013
    This book emphasizes the significance of various ways of resource use in India. This book is divided into three parts. The first part examines the several forms of restraint on resource use reported from human societies. In the second part, a new interpretation of how the cultural and ecological mosaic of Indian society came together is discussed. The last part presents a socio-ecological analysis of the new modes of resource use which were introduced by the British, and which have continued to operate, with modifications, after Independence in 1947. It also indicates that the British colonial rule established a crucial watershed in the ecological history of India. Generally, this book reports new data along with new interpretations of old data, and, most importantly, it shows a new and alternative framework for understanding Indian society and history.
  • Ecology and equity: The use and abuse of nature in contemporary India
    Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha
    Ecology and Equity the Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India, 2013
    Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem. Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the interconnections of social and environmental conflict on the global scale. The authors argue that the root of this conflict is competition within different social groups and between different economic interests for natural resources. Radical both in its critique of the causes of crisis in India and in its proposals for ecological reform, Ecology and Equity is essential reading for all concerned for the Third World's in the world.
  • Varieties of environmentalism: Essays North and South
    Ramachandra Guha, Joan Martínez Alier
    Varieties of Environmentalism Essays North and South, 2013
    Until very recently, studies of the environmental movement have been heavily biased towards the North Atlantic worlds. There was a common assumption amongst historians and sociologists that concerns over such issues as conservation or biodiversity were the exclusive preserve of the affluent westerner: the ultimate luxury of the consumer society. Citizens of the world's poorest countries, ran the conventional wisdom, had nothing to gain from environmental concerns; they were 'too poor to be green', and were attending to the more urgent business of survival. Yet strong environmental movements have sprung up over recent decades in some of the poorest countries in Asia and Latin America, albeit with origins and forms of expression quite distinct from their western counterparts. In Varieties of Environmentalism, Guha and Matinez-Alier seek to articulate the values and orientation of the environmentalism of the poor, and to explore the conflicting priorities of South and North that were so dramatically highlighted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Essays on the 'ecology of affluence' are also included, placing ion context such uniquely western phenomena as the 'cult of wilderness' and the environmental justice movement. Using a combination of archival and field data,. The book presents analyses of environmental conflicts and ideologies in four continents: North and South America, Asia and Europe. The authors present the nature and history of environmental movements in quite a new light, one which clarifies the issues and the processes behind them. They also provide reappraisals for three seminal figures, Gandhi, Georgescu-Roegen and Mumford, whose legacy may yet contribute to a greater cross-cultural understanding within the environmental movements.
  • A war in the heart of India
    Nation, 2007
  • Movement scholarship
    Environmental History, 2005
  • How much should a person consume?
    Ramachandra Guha
    Vikalpa, 2003
  • The Multiple Careers of Dharma Kumar
    Ramachandra Guha
    Studies in History, 2003
  • The Past and Future of the Environmental Movement: Its Social and Ethical Perspectives
    Ramachandra Guha
    Management and Labour Studies, 2002
  • The prehistory of community forestry in India
    Ramachandra Guha
    Environmental History, 2001
  • The paradox of global environmentalism
    Ramachandra Guha
    Current History, 2000
  • Towards a perspective on environmental movements in India
    Indian Journal of Social Work, 1998
  • The authoritarian biologist and the arrogance of anti-humanism: Wildlife conservation in the third world
    Ecologist, 1997
  • Varieties of environmentalism. Essays North and South
    Varieties of Environmentalism Essays North and South, 1997
  • Mahatma Gandhi and the Environmental Movement in India
    Ramachandra Guha
    Capitalism Nature Socialism, 1995
  • Ecology and equity: the use and abuse of nature in contemporary India
    Ecology and Equity the Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India, 1995
  • Ecological Conflicts and the Environmental Movement in India
    Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha
    Development and Change, 1994
  • Writing environmental history in India
    Ramachandra Guha
    Studies in History, 1993
  • The malign encounter: the Chipko Movement and competing visions of nature
    Who Will Save the Forests, 1993
  • Lewis Mumford: The Forgotten American Environmentalist: An Essay in Rehabilitation
    Ramachandra Guha
    Capitalism Nature Socialism, 1991
  • Toward a Cross-Cultural Environmental Ethic
    Ramachandra Guha
    Alternatives Global Local Political, 1990
  • An early environmental debate: The making of the 1878 forest act
    Ramachandra Guha
    Indian Economic Social History Review, 1990
  • Sociology in India: Some elective affinities
    Ramachandra Guha
    Contributions to Indian Sociology, 1989
  • State forestry and social conflict in British India
    Ramachandra Guha, Madhav Gadgil
    Past and Present, 1989