Abstract: Historically, from precolonial to contemporary times, the Indigenous communities across India, South Asia, and other parts of the world have been marginalized, criminalized, and silenced, not only in physical ways but in psychological, epistemological, and ideological manners as well. To elaborate further, the habitual acts of hijacking, polluting, and disposing of Indigenous lands, peoples, nature reserves, and forest resources in the name of development and modernity have led to the erasure of ecoentangled knowledge systems of the Indigenous communities. The capitalistic tendencies of targeting selected natural and human civilizations for profit also show how certain living entities are treated as discards and feces. This imagery of specific individuals, communities, and ecosystems as discarded objects is reflected in Amitav Ghosh's fable The Living Mountain (2022). In the context of the fable, the article unfolds how the reckless, self-interested attitude of human civilization has been destroying and objectifying the natural environment and pushing the planet toward a wasteful and garbocractic future.
Sayan Dey (Sat,) studied this question.