Using the Garhwal Himalayas as a site for political contest, economic empowerment and employment generation, this book highlights the interactions between state and society vis-a-vis development. Over time, the state with its agenda for development has promoted policies that have not always produced the desired impact - progress, prosperity, self- sufficiency. The economy of the Garhwal Himalayas that has been determined by subsistence farming, transit trade and a heavy dependence on extractive industries such as mining is today being driven by a relatively new industry - tourism....