This article examines in detail how the forms of national or indigenous consciousness emerged in the sphere of Indian political ecology between 1857 and 1910. The subjects of “ecological indigeneity” and “dispossession” formed as defining characteristics in the articulation of this ecopolitical thinking. The scholarship to date has produced voluminous writings on the political, economic, and social dimension of the histories of colonial unrest, but it has not adequately addressed the issue of how the subtext of environmentalism greatly mattered in shaping some of the resistance movements. Focusing on the period between the 1857 revolt and 1910, this study evaluates three groups – (1) the 1857 Indian rebels and the Gonds; (2) the ādivāsī tribes of Bastar in 1910; and (3) the early Indian Congress Nationalists in the 1880s – to elucidate the emergence of environmentalism and indigenous dispossession in colonial India, which became foundational in critiquing British interventionist policies.

本文详细研究了 1857 年至 1910 年间，民族或土著意识的形式如何在印度政治生态领域中出现。“生态土著性”和“剥夺”这两个主题在表达这种生态政治思想时形成了决定性特征。迄今为止的学术研究已经产生了大量关于殖民动乱历史的政治、经济和社会维度的著作，但它并没有充分解决环境保护主义的潜台词如何在塑造一些抵抗运动方面发挥重要作用的问题。本研究重点关注 1857 年起义和 1910 年之间的时期，评估了三个群体——(1) 1857 年的印度叛乱者和冈德人；(2) ādivāsī1910 年的巴斯塔部落；(3) 1880 年代早期的印度国会民族主义者——阐明殖民印度出现的环保主义和土著剥夺，这成为批评英国干预主义政策的基础。