Bahuguna, Sunderlal, 1927-2021
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Name (Latin)
Bahuguna, Sunderlal, 1927-2021
Other forms of name
Bahuguna, Sunderlal, 1927-
Bahuguṇā, Sundaralāla, 1927-
Date of birth
1927-01-09
Date of death
2021-05-21
Field of activity
Ecology
Occupation
Environmentalists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Environment crisis & sustainable development, 1992:t.p. (Sunderlal Bahuguna) jkt. (Gandhian activist and eminent environmentalist)
- Ṭiharī ke Bahuguṇā, 2010:p. 31 (Sundaralāla Bahuguṇā)
- Wikipedia, viewed June 27, 2012(Sunderlal Bahuguna; b. Jan. 9, 1927)
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Sunderlal Bahuguna at New Tehri cropped
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File:A protest message against Tehri dam, Garhwal, Uttarakhand.jpg
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File:Sundarlal Bahuguna interacting with students.jpg
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File:Sunderlal Bahuguna at New Tehri cropped.jpg
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File:The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting Padma Vibhushan Award to Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna at the Civil Investiture Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on April 14, 2009.jpg
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Wikipedia description:
Sunderlal Bahuguna (9 January 1927 – 21 May 2021) was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader. The idea of the Chipko movement was suggested by his wife Vimla Bahuguna and him. He fought for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas, first as a member of the Chipko movement in the 1970s, and later spearheaded the anti-Tehri Dam movement from the 1980s to early 2004. He was one of the early environmentalists of India, and later he and others associated with the Chipko movement and started taking up wider environmental issues, such as being opposed to large dams.
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