Contents:
[1] The cultural underpinnings : traditional Hindu concepts of nature. Dharmic ecology / O.P. Dwivedi;
The five great elements (pan̄camahābhūta) : an ecological perspective / K.L. Seshagiri Rao;
Nature romanticism and sacrifice in Ṛgvedic interpretation / Laurie L. Patton;
State responsibility for environmental management : perspectives from Hindu texts on polity / Mary McGee;
Literary foundations for an ecological aesthetic : dharma, ayurveda, the arts, and Abhijñānaśākuntalam / T.S. Rukmani;
Reading the Bhagavadgītā from an ecological perspective / Lance E. Nelson;
Can Hindu beliefs and values help India meet its ecological crisis? / Anil Agarwal. [2] Gandhian philosophy and the development of an indigenous Indian environmental ethic. Too deep for deep ecology : Gandhi and the ecological vision of life / Vinay Lal;
The inner logic of Gandhian ecology / Larry D. Shinn. [3] Forests in classic texts and traditions. The natural history of the Rāmāyana / David Lee;
City, forest, and cosmos : ecological perspectives from the Sanskrit epics / Philip Lutgendorf;
"Sacred grove" and ecology : ritual and science / Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and Pramod Parajuli;
"If you cut a branch you cut my finger" : court, forest, and environmental ethics in Rajasthan / Ann Grodzins Gold. [4] Flowing sacrality and risking profanity : the Yamunā, Gaṅgā, and Narmada Rivers. River of love in an age of pollution / David L. Haberman;
Separate domains : Hinduism, politics, and environmental pollution / Kelly D. Alley;
The Narmada : circumambulation of a sacred landscape / Chris Deegan;
Sacred rivers, sacred dams : competing visions of social justice and sustainable development along the Narmada / William F. Fisher;
Green and red, not saffron : gender and the politics of resistance in the Narmada valley / Pratyusha Basu and Jael Silliman. [5] Can Hindu text and ritual practice help develop environmental conscience? Rituals of embedded ecologies : drawing kōlams, marrying trees, and generating auspiciousness / Vijaya Nagarajan;
The ritual capsule of Durga puja : an ecological perspective / Madhu Khanna;
Ethical and religious dimensions of Chipko resistance / George A. James.