Caste and nature : dalits and indian environmental politics / Mukul Sharma.
Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press 2017Edition: First editionDescription: xxxvi, 296 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780199477562 (hardback)
- 0199477566 (hardback)
- 23 304.20954 SHA 012697
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304.20954 IND 003188 India's environmental history / | 304.20954 IND 003189 India's environmental history / | 304.20954 KHO 003122 Mahatma Gandhi and the environment : | 304.20954 SHA 012697 Caste and nature : dalits and indian environmental politics / | 304.20954 SOC 003303 Social ecology / | 304.2095414 LAH 008159 People and life on the Chars of South Asia : | 304.20954162 BAR 019977 Slow disaster : political ecology of hazards and everyday life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam / |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Eco-casteism: Sulabh and the Denial of Dalit Existence
2.Dalit Environmental Visions
3.Ambedkar and Environmental Thought
4.Dalit Memories and Water Rights
5.The Dalit Mountain Man and New Commons.
Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental thought. Showing how Dalit experiences of environment are ridden with metaphors of pollution, impurity, and dirt, the author is able to bring forth new dimensions on both environment and Dalits, without valourizing the latter's standpoint.00Rather than looking for a coherent understanding of their ecology, the book explores the diverse and rich intellectual resources of Dalits, such as movements, songs, myths, memories, and metaphors around nature. These reveal their quest to define themselves in caste-ridden nature and building a form of environmentalism free from the burdens of caste. The Dalits also pose a critical challenge to Indian environmentalism, which has, until now, marginalized such linkages between caste and nature.
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