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020			_a9780199477562
028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _bH-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _cBW/000328 _d04/11/2025
028			_a: Technical Bureau _b: 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c: TB3471 _d: 11/2/2026
082			_a309.20 SHA
100			_aSharma, Mukul.
245			_aCaste and Nature _b: Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics. _c/ Mukul Sharma.
260			_aNew Delhi _b : Oxford University Press, _c , 2017.
300			_axxxvi, 296 p. _c; 24cm.
365			_b770
520			_aRarely 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. Rather 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.
650			_aEnvironmental policy
650			_aEnvironmentalism
650			_a Dalits
700			_aMukul sharma.
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