ABSTRACT
The present volume is one of three in a series, planned on the platform of Chotro, 1 for a ‘polyphonic … articulation and expression’ of the ‘existential disasters’, faced by marginalized communities the world over (Devy et al. 2012: 6–7). If the disinherited, dispossessed, migrant communities narrate their struggles to visit, perform and preserve their identities in the other two volumes, this volume describes the way they know the world around them, relate with it and protect it instead of exploiting it. They retain the pristine mode of knowing nature homologically, as subject and object at the same time, in consonance with its rhythmic cycles, its visible and intelligible precepts, and live according to them, instead of trying to alter them.
