ABSTRACT
The present chapter examines Kamala Markandaya’s The Coffer Dams (2008) and Na D’Souza’s Dweepa (2013) as environmental narratives that draw our attention to the impact of dam construction, another aspect of modern development, on tribal people and their idyllic life. These novels document the agony of displaced local people due to the submersion of land. In addition, Markandaya and D’Souza bring to our notice that Indian environmental problems are necessarily human problems and not merely feministic issues.
