The book has a critical anyalysis how the early Europeam environmentalists worked in India and what were their achivements and limitations in the colonial period.The environmentalists includes activists, foresters, missionaries, poets and writers who wrote about Indian nature. The attitudes of these Europeans were complex and critical. Their psychology was not determined either from the passion towards protection of natural resources or from an inherent imperialism. Their attitude was complex and paradoxical. This is important to study these approaches from the perspective of environmental...