Postcolonial Environments examines the relationship between contemporary environmental crises and culture by offering a series of provocative readings of key Indian novels in English, making an original and important contribution to the emerging theories of 'green postcolonialism'.

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UPAMANYU PABLO MUKHERJEE was born in Calcutta, India, and educated there. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to study in Oxford, UK, and went on to teach at Cambridge, Newcastle and Warwick Universities. He is the author of Crime Fiction and Empire (2005).

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Acknowledgements Introduction From Earth Day to Earth Summits 'Green Postcolonialism' and 'Postcolonial Green' Towards Eco-Materialism The River and the Dance: Arundhati Roy Water/Land: Amitav Ghosh Dead Air: Indra Sinha 'Blood on my water': Ruchir Joshi Endnotes References Index