PYQ Vault · Paper 1 · Social Movements
Write short note on the significance of Chipko Movement.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
ree RI 1973 Garhwal, tree-hugging against commercial felling → significance = ecology tied to routes livelihood (“Ecology is economy’). | R2 | Open on its layered character -—. not asingle-issue protest → environmental + peasant + women’s + regional at once.
Body flow
Body Layered character -. women at the core → early ecofeminism (forest loss raises women’s flow fuel/fodder/water burden) – the poor suffer most from degradation → Guha’s “environmentalism of the poor” (survival, not leisure).. Shiva & Bandyopadhyay: a revival of “forest satyagraha”.. concrete impact: 15-year felling ban + National Forest Policy, 1988 + inspired Appiko and Narmada Bachao Andolan.
Counter-view
Counter- Guha’s later assessment -. forests, rivers and water tables kept declining after Chipko — structural view change limited, dominant development model largely intact.
Conclusion routes
PNG R1 Lasting worth = binding ecology to survival + a Gandhian, non-violent template. routes | R2 | Impact lies more in awareness and precedent than in transforming the development model.
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
