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Indian environmental activist (1927–2021)

Sunderlal Bahuguna (9 January 1927 – 21 May 2021) was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader.

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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.^[4] He was one of the early environmentalists of India,^[5] and later he and others associated with the Chipko movement and started taking up wider environmental issues, such as being opposed to large dams.^[6]

Early life

Sunderlal Bahuguna was born in the village Maroda near Tehri, Uttarakhand.

He claimed in a function arranged at Kolkata, that his ancestors bearing surname Bandyopadhyaya, migrated from Bengal to Tehri, 800 years ago.^[7] Early on, he fought against untouchability and later s