ABSTRACT
The aim of the present chapter is to scrutinise Indian novelists’ treatment of ecofeminism and their unique contributions to the ecofeminist discourse. It examines Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve (2009), Pundalik Naik’s The Upheaval (2002), Shivram Karanth’s Return to Earth (2002) and Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green (2011) as narratives of agriculture. The setting of these novels, by and large, is agrarian and pastoral life. They, with a little bit of variation, show how the idyllic life of agriculture is disturbed by modern developmental attitude. The reading of these novels not only shows agriculture as an ecofeminist concern but also add a new dimension to this discourse.
