Environmental Thinking in Dalit literature

Abstract

To make happy and healthy life, we must consider the environment. The environment is connected with every living being and is always around us. When we talk about environmental improvement, we see that the government is getting the work of planting millions of trees every year and works on digging ponds for collection rainy water, the government also getting the work of controlling pollution but despite this, the environment where we live is degrading every day. Today, for the needs of people and their comfortable lives, trees are being cut, and roads are being constructed from various places. People of the Dalit community have made a huge contribution to keeping the environment safe and clean because their livelihood was completely dependent on the environment. When they did not get food, they used to earn their living by plucking fruits and flowers from trees. There is a caste in the Dalit community, which is known as Mali, its job is to guard, and serve the trees, that is why people of this caste are known as Mali caste. Similarly, people of other castes also come from the Dalit community, who are known as the real “son of Nature”

Keywords:    Environment, Dalit community, controlling pollution, Mali caste, son of Nature”