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Sadhu activism: rights of rivers and facets of religious environmentalism in the Himalayas

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Clé publique

doi:10.1080/13642987.2024.2420244

Auteurs

Rahul Ranjan

Année déclarée

2024

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

article

Première détection

2026-11-09T19:04:47.544383+00:00

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2026-11-09T19:12:33.164586+00:00

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Non effectuée

Institutions déclarées par la source

University of Edinburgh

Pays d’affiliation déclarés

GB

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

Rivers in South Asia have significantly shaped the region’s political, social and cultural history. However, with the emergent threats of climate change, new regimes of ‘environmental’ law, and large-scale human intervention, the landscape – whereby the environment is intertwined with people’s lives and their livelihoods – is profoundly impacted. This article explores two reflections on contemporary debates on the rivers. First, it investigates how non-state actors, such as Sadhus (ascetics), leverage religious worldview to engage with law to safeguard the river Ganga’s interest. Secondly, it examines how a federal case of ‘rights of river’ in Uttarakhand became a rallying point for legal personhood in India. By drawing recent scholarship, this article illustrates the intricate relationship between religious environmentalism, environment and the role of non-state actors in navigating legal frameworks based on rights. The article argues that the recent order on river rights, while drawing on nature’s right discourse overlook deeply entangled characteristics of river’s relationship with riparian community and fraught nature of religious environmentalism in India. Using the Ashram as a site of locating religious environmentalism and its entanglement with the river’s right, the article demonstrates how an ontological move towards more-than-human rights-based framework can obfuscate longstanding inequality embedded into how ‘nature’ is accessed and utilised.

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DOI

10.1080/13642987.2024.2420244

OPENALEX

W4403870830

OPENAIRE

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Article · article

Juridictions étudiées — sources explicites

IN

Entités naturelles mentionnées

Fleuve / rivière · Paysage

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OpenAIRE · Document 1

OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2024.2420244
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4403870830

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