Ramachandra Guha

Indian historian, writer, and public intellectual known for works on modern Indian history, environmental history, and biographies, including 'India After Gandhi.'

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  1. 1. How Much Should A Person Consume?

    A concise, comparative examination of environmentalism that contrasts the histories, values and practices of India and the United States to ask how much consumption is socially and ecologically defensible; the book traces grassroots movements, intellectual currents and policy responses, critiques affluent consumerism and elite-led conservation alike, and argues for limits on consumption coupled with social justice so that ecological protection does not become an instrument of privilege but a shared ethic guiding distribution, technology and political action.

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