TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kent, Eliza F.
TI  - Sacred groves and local gods: : religion and environmentalism in South India 
SN  - 9780199895489
U1  - 294.535095482 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford Univ. Press
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
KW  - Sacred groves-India-Tamil Nadu
KW  - Forest conservation -- Social aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu
N2  - Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu over seven years, Eliza F. Kent offers a compelling examination of the religious and social context in which south India's sacred groves take on meaning for the villagers who maintain them, and shows how they have become objects of fascination and hope for Indian environmentalists
ER  -