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Dr. Shekhar Pathak is a historian, editor, publisher, activist, and traveller from Uttarakhand, India. He is known for his extensive knowledge of the history of colonial and postcolonial social movements and contemporary environmental and social issues in Uttarakhand, and colonial exploration in the Himalayas and Tibet.
Dec 27, 2020 · Shekhar Pathak came from Kumaun and had been a student-activist in the Uttarakhand Sangharsh Vahini before turning to teaching and research. He now taught at the Kumaun University’s Department ...
Dec 1, 2022 · The Chipko Movement: A People’s History (Permanent Black & Ashoka University) by Shekhar Pathak (translated from Hindi by Manisha Chaudhry) has won the Rs 15 lakh Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022. Announced December 1, the award, in its fifth edition, was instituted by the New India Foundation in 2018 to recognise powerful works ...
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Dec 05, 2022 09:07 AM IST. The winner of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 and founder of the People’s Association for Himalaya Area Research (PAHAR) talks about writing a...
Dec 8, 2022 · Brought into English by writer and editor Manisha Chaudhry as The Chipko Movement: A People’s History, the book was originally written by Shekhar Pathak, the now 71-year-old historian...
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Dec 6, 2020 · Shekhar Pathak is the quintessential historian-as-fieldworker: he has lived in the many valleys where the Chipko protests took place, studied their landscapes, and talked at length to protesters and communities.
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Dec 1, 2022 · Historian, activist and writer Shekhar Pathak has won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 for his book 'The Chipko Movement'. Read more details here.
