Nature and earth have always been an outlet for emotions offered to artists and writers as a vast expanse of indulgence as well as submergence. This magnified emotion of attachment, loss and immortality towards nature, has often been reflected and explored by the poets and novelists, which gave them the title of a ‘Romantic’. However, when this feeling drew attention from a critical faculty of intellectuals, it came to be known as Green Studies or Eco-Criticism.

There are several studies in this field which tend to highlight that eco-criticism emerged as a drift in literary studies only after the 1980s…

The tribals of India have been considered as a very primitive segment of the society. Around 90 millions of people belong to this indigenous community known as the ‘Adivasis’ which according to the 2011 census, is 8.10% of India’s total population.

The idea of disregarding them as primitive or barbarous is an ignorant and a self-depreciating one where we, in an urban space, fail as a society that does not understand their self-sufficiency and the complex network of interdependency within their own community, aloof from the outside world.

It is only the shackles of economic needs that tie the ankles of indigenous people to the mainstream western education and force them to compromise on their own culture and adopt a foreign language as means for survival.

The lack of a standard lexicon for indigenous ecological knowledge trammels the…