TY  - GEN
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. 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 valourising the latter's standpoint.
AB  - 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 valourising the latter's standpoint.
T1  - Caste and nature :Dalits and Indian environmental politics /
AU  - Sharma, Mukul,
ET  - First edition.
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - DS422.C3
ID  - 812246
KW  - Caste
KW  - Caste
KW  - Caste
KW  - Caste
KW  - Dalits
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Environmentalism
SN  - 9780199090969
TI  - Caste and nature :Dalits and Indian environmental politics /
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