TY - BOOK AU - MUKUL SHARMA TI - CASTE AND NATURE : DALITS AND INDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS SN - 9780199477562 U1 - 305.568 PY - 2017/// CY - NEW DELHI PB - OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS KW - DALITS-POLITICAL ACTIVITY-INDIA KW - ENVIRONMENTALISM-INDIA N2 - : 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. ER -