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India’s Forests, Real and Imagined investigates the profound relationship between forests and the construction of modern Indian nationhood through literature and cultural discourse. Alan Johnson traces how Indian writers have represented forests not merely as physical environments but as complex metaphorical landscapes reflecting anxieties about colonialism, independence, and environmental change.
The book examines canonical and contemporary Indian literary texts alongside environmental histories to demonstrate how forests operate as sites of resistance, spirituality, and national imagination. Johnson argues that understanding India’s forests requires engaging with both material realities and the imaginative frameworks through which they are written and understood.
By bridging environmental history and literary studies, this work offers fresh perspectives on postcolonial ecocriticism and the role of nature in shaping national identity, making it essential reading for scholars of Indian literature, environmental humanities, and postcolonial studies.
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