Intellectual Environmental History of India: A Study on Ideas of Deen Dayal Upadhyay
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Ecology, Hinduism, Decentralisation, Nature, Culture.Abstract
Environmental history emerged as an exciting historical inquiry in the last three decades in India. It mainly focuses on the relationship between human beings and nature in the past. Intellectual environmental history documents the ideas of intellectuals from ecological perspective. In this backdrop, this paper attempts to capture the ideas of Deen Dayal Upadhyay from ecological perceptive. The philosophical outlook of Upadhyaya embedded fascinating views on the harmonious relationship between human beings and nature. His writings reflect the deep spiritual relationship between culture and natural forms in India. This paper proposes that an attempt to document the ecological dimension of Upadhyay is useful in the context of his growing reputation as original nationalist thinkers in the contemporary India.
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