Hunting and trapping of wild animals was banned by India’s Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. While the state terms it an illegal activity, various social science scholars believe it is a source of livelihood for people ...

Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK) has proven effective in environmental governance, forest management, and sustainable development, yet it is threatened by globalization and rapid social–ecological changes. In southern ...

The Harappan Culture emerged in the Indus-Saraswati Region, with sites spreading over present-day northwest India, Gujarat, Pakistan, and Afghanistan between 2600 and 1900 BCE. Harappan sites have yielded extensive structural ...

Plastic is everywhere, all around us, and yet do we see it? What does the plastic gyre in the North Pacific tell us? Much like climate crisis, often considered intangible, plastic deposition on the surface of the earth is ...

One of the dominant issues in writings on the tribal societies of Northeast India is the liberal use of concepts like custom, customary law, and law without clarity about the distinctions and overlaps between them. It is ...

This chapter examines ‘interior monologue’ as a modernist form in select Jibanananda Das novels to show how it remains counterintuitively externalist. I begin by reading Das’ own ruminations on the Bengali novel and its ...