Nature – Culture Interaction in Folk Literature of Madhya Pradesh with special reference to Gond Tribes

Abstract

Eco-criticism is about wholeness and interrelatedness. In addition, it also analyses the role played by the natural environment in the imagination of a cultural community. This paper aims at tracing such interconnection of nature and culture in the folk literature of Gond tribes of Madhya Pradesh, who constitute more than half the tribal population of the state