Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Encounter -- Chapter 2 The Childhood of an Activist -- Chapter 3 Going Underground -- Chapter 4 The Short Career of an Activist Politician -- Chapter 5 Meeting Mira Behn -- Chapter 6 Marriage and the Parvatiya Navjeevan Ashram -- Chapter 7 Embracing the Trees -- Chapter 8 Modes of Chipko Resistance -- Chapter 9 A Permanent Economy -- Chapter 10 Chipko Ecology: Shallow or Deep? -- Chapter 11 Srinagar to Kohima: An Educational Mission -- Chapter 12 Protesting the Tehri Dam -- Chapter 13 Social Ecology, Religion, and the Tehri Protest -- The Dam and the Hindu Right -- The Rising Tide and the Judgment of the Supreme Court -- Chapter 14 Against the Tide: Bahuguna's Philosophy of Life, Religion, and Nature -- Bahuguna and Gandhi -- Bahuguna, Gandhi, and Ecology -- Bahuguna and Indian Spirituality -- Appendix 1 Some Critical Dates in the History of Modern India and the Activism of Sunderlal Bahuguna -- Appendix 2 Arguments of the Petitioners in the Public Interest Litigation against the Tehri Dam -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.