4 Gandhi’s Criticism of Industrialization and Modernity; An Environmental Perspective Nishikant Kolge Sreekumar N. Introduction Gandhi viewed life as a whole. He did not divide life into different watertight compartments like political, religious, economics and so on. What he had said about politics must be largely applicable in religion, economics and many other fields of human life as well. Therefore, Gandhi has been attracting scholars from various fields and when concerns for environment acquired a kind of movement in 1960s, many scholars and activists of this field also looked at Gandhi for inspiration. Thus, the name of Gandhi and his relevance in environmental movements are not new for the scholars and students who have been working in this field. The way he lived his personal life itself is a great example as well as matter of study for many environmentalists. And the way he interacted in different domains of human life opens several other possibilities to claim him as an environmentalist with a difference. Environmental philosophers including Arne Naess, founding father of Deep Ecology, constantly acknowledged their debt to Gandhi on many occasions and many environmental activists like Sunderlal Bahuguna, Baba Amte and Medha Patkar own debt to Gandhi for borrowing his techniques. Apart from all these, many scholars have worked to establish and re-establish Gandhi as an environmentalist. This