ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN MUGHAL ERA

ABSTRACT

The study of how environmental concerns have grown in human society and soon become a respectable branch of intellectual history may shed significant light on the culture of any society. One can argue that these concerns have two sources: anxiety over the surroundings in which we live, a feeling in which the good life of our own species is the principal object; or sympathy for other animal and plant species, in which the protection of other species (at least their preservation) becomes an end in itself. The two attitudes are products of two different standpoints and it is possible that the requirements of the one, on many occasions, be found in contradiction to those of the other. But underlying both these concerns has been humanity’s interest in nature, for its own sake, manifested especially in the scientific study of fauna and flora. 

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