Q.In what way is the Amrita Devi Bishnoi movement considered an early forerunner of the tree-hugging tactic later associated with the Chipko movement? Mention any honour instituted by the Government of India in her memory.

The episode at Khejarli is historically significant as an early precedent for the specific tactic that the Chipko Movement made famous roughly two and a half centuries later: the act of physically embracing, or clinging to, a tree in order to place a human body between the tree and the axe. While the Chipko Movement of the 1970s developed independently in its own regional and organisational context in the Himalayas, the earlier example at Khejarli is widely regarded as a historical forerunner of the same essential idea. In recognition of the Bishnoi community's history of wildlife and forest protection, and of the Khejarli sacrifice in particular, the Government of India instituted the Amrita Devi Bishnoi Wil …

Make the link explicit: same essential tactic (embracing a tree), separated by roughly two and a half centuries, plu …

Do not claim the Chipko Movement was directly, organisationally descended from the Khejarli event -- it developed independently in the Himalayas; the connection is that Khejarli is regarded as …