The ecology of protest: Environmental narratives in the Narmada Bachoo Andolon
- Social Action: A Quarterly Review of Social Trends
- 75(3), Jul-Sep, 2025: p.257-270
In post independence India, national development was equated with economic growth and large-scale infrastructure, echoing Nehruvian ideals. Dams, like the Sardar Sarovar project on the Narmada river, were central to this vision, seen as tools for agricultural expansion, flood control, and energy production in a largely agrarian society. – Reproduced