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CASTE AND NATURE : DALITS AND INDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: ENGLISH Publication details: NEW DELHI OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2017Edition: 1Description: 296ISBN:
  • 9780199477562
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.568 SH
Summary: : 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.
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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.

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