Caste and nature : Dalits and Indian environmental politics / Mukul Sharma.

By:

Sharma, Mukul, 1961-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2017.Description: xxxvi, 296p. ; 23cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199477562
0199477566

Other title:

Caste & nature [Cover title]

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DDC classification:

304.20954 SHA 22

LOC classification:

DS422.C3 S468 2017

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. The author 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index.

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. The author 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.

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