[INDOLOGY] re. Sanskrit can tackle climate change

[Nagaraj Paturi]

For a sample of a kind of archeological discussion of environmental aspects
of ancient India,

ADDRESS OF THE SECTIONAL PRESIDENT: ENVIRONMENT, ROYAL POLICY AND SOCIAL
FORMATION IN THE EASTERN GHATS SOUTH INDIA, A.D. 1000 - 1500
M.L.K. MURTY
Proceedings of the Indian History Congress
Vol. 53 (1992), pp. 615-631
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44142879?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Prof. M L K Murty passed away recently.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Shaw, Julia via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Further to Antonia Ruppell's pertinent remarks on this topic, some of you
> may be interested in my recent edited volume on Archaeology
> and Environmental Ethics which calls for those studying environmental
> events past and present to give greater thought to the
> religio-philosophical and epistemological roots of the historically
> specific human–environmental relationships that underlie our current
> environmental and climate-change crisis, and to question how differing
> attitudes towards the relationship between humans and non-humans may
> produce distinct environmental trajectories and responses to extreme
> events.
>
>
> https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwar20/48/4
> <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwar20/48/4>
>
> The following is from the Introduction: https://www.
> tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2016.132675
> <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2016.132675>
>
>
> The volume brings together papers on archaeology’ s engagement with the
> ethical dimension of
>
> past:present:future global environmental discourse, arguing that the study
> of historically specific
>
> human:non-human:environment worldviews and epistemologies, particularly
> those in which
>
> religio-cultural constructs regarding humans’  place in the world are
> shaping forces in economic,
>
> socio-political and environmental action, should be key to building
> long-term perspectives on the
>
> current global environmental crisis. Its publication is timely given the
> growing cross-disciplinary
>
> interest in Anthropocene studies with which archaeology has only recently
> begun to engage,
>
> albeit generally with the rather restricted aim of promoting its capacity
> to deepen temporal
>
>  perspectives on the social-construction-of-‘ nature’  theme that
> permeates Anthropocene discussions
>
> and to provide empirical evidence for practical and material responses to
> climate change and
>
> extreme environmental events, as relevant models for present:future
> challenges. Further, the
>
> related human:environmental ‘ entanglement’  discourse has, with recent
> exceptions (Lane 2015 ),
>
> tended to focus on agrarian and technological agents of change, rather
> than on underlying ethical
>
> frameworks whether driven by explicit religious theologies and
> epistemologies or through more
>
> broadly applicable ideological ‘ worldviews’  akin to Latour’ s (2013b )
> ‘ secular religion’ . Finally,
>
> archaeology’ s growing interest in the generalized term ‘ climate change’
> , itself a symptom of
>
> deeper human:environment imbalance, tends to overlook the diversity and
> variation of impact
>
> in terms of both causal contributing factors and individualized impact at
> a human level.
>
> The volume arose from the need to address these problems through
> examination of historical
>
> concepts of human:non-human care in relation to environmental ethics and
> historical socioecology
>
> and assessment of how particular social, religious, or political groups
> responded to new
>
> environmental challenges in antiquity.
>
>
> My own contribution addresses gaps in the understanding of the interface
> between religious, socio-economic and environmental change in ancient India
> , perpetuated partly by a lack of coordinated interdisciplinary teamwork
> between Indology and archaeology, and queries to what extent ancient
> Indian religio-philosophical traditions upheld notions of ‘ nature’ , ‘
> environment’  and environmental ethics that can contribute to
> contemporary discourse on our climate / environmental change crisis.
>
>
> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2016.1250671
>
>
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Julia Shaw
>
>
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> Dr Julia Shaw
>
> Lecturer in South Asian Archaeology
> Chair of Ethics Committee
> Tutor for Academic Writing
> Institute of Archaeology UCL
> 31-34 Gordon Square
> London WC1H 0PY
>
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/academic/julia-shaw
> <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/academic/julia-shaw>
> https://ucl.academia.edu/juliashaw
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-- 
Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.


BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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