The essay examines the changing human-plant geographies in Kodagu, situated in the Western Ghats in southern India. Paying attention to Kodagu helps investigate how “plantiness” impacts resource politics in Indigenous landscapes across pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial timeframes. This chapter will study Sarita Mandanna’s Tiger Hills (2010) and Kavery Nambisan’s The Scent of Pepper (2010) from a bioregional perspective to understand the importance of native plants, forests, vegetal, and feral spaces across Kodagu’s shifting societies and timeframes and investigate how the human-plant encounters redefine the role of plants in Kodagu’s more-than-human geographies. With a particular focus on the Kodava ritual of Kailpodh, this chapter will explore how humans often classify plants as native, invasive, weeds, sacred, and unwanted, depending on their impact on human social life and how ritualizing plants such as rajakirita helps to reinhabit Kodagu and deepens the Kodava human-plant interaction across space and time.

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Multispecies Conviviality, Bioregionalism, and Vegetal Politics in Kodagu, India

  • Subarna De

摘要

The essay examines the changing human-plant geographies in Kodagu, situated in the Western Ghats in southern India. Paying attention to Kodagu helps investigate how “plantiness” impacts resource politics in Indigenous landscapes across pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial timeframes. This chapter will study Sarita Mandanna’s Tiger Hills (2010) and Kavery Nambisan’s The Scent of Pepper (2010) from a bioregional perspective to understand the importance of native plants, forests, vegetal, and feral spaces across Kodagu’s shifting societies and timeframes and investigate how the human-plant encounters redefine the role of plants in Kodagu’s more-than-human geographies. With a particular focus on the Kodava ritual of Kailpodh, this chapter will explore how humans often classify plants as native, invasive, weeds, sacred, and unwanted, depending on their impact on human social life and how ritualizing plants such as rajakirita helps to reinhabit Kodagu and deepens the Kodava human-plant interaction across space and time.