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In the 1970s and 1980s, struggles over fores rights in the Garhwal Himalayas drew worldwide attention via the Chipko movement. To a large extent, this also entailed a subsuming of local experiences under global discourses: many of the messages and meaning of the Chipko movement's varied struggles were homogenized, changed, and rewritten. Antje Linkenback persuasively argues that global representation took away narrative control from local actors and removed Chipko from the specificity of its locale, from its village contexts. Her attempts is to relocate forest issues and struggles by revisiting the perspectives of leading activists and local residents. About Author : ANTJE LINKENBACH, social anthropologist and sociologist has taught at the universities of Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Tubingen, and Zurich. She has been a research fellow at the Centre of Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. She is currently based at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Contents : Tables, Maps, Figures, and Illustrations Acknowledgements How to Make One's Interlocutors Present? Approaching Local Perspectives on Forest and Ecology in Garhwal The Region: A Geographical and and Socio-historicl Skethc of Uttarakhand (with Special Reference to Garhwal) Resisting Commercial Forest Exploitation: A Narrative Approach to the Chipko Andolan Ecology and Development: Two Powerful Narratives Discourses on Forest Rights and Forest Use in Uttarakhand The Interconnections of Forest and Village Life in Rawain (Western Garhwal) Conclusion: Lessons from Uttarkhand, or, the Locals Speak Back Bibliography Index