Studies in Indian Place Names (UGC Care Journal) ISSN: 2394-3114 Vol-40-Issue-60-March -2020 Page | 672 Copyright ⓒ 2020Authors Emergence of Eco-Feminism in India: A Survey of Literature Arvind Swaroop* Research Scholar Department of History Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow Email: arvindswroop3009@gmail.com Dr. V.M. Ravi Kumar Assistant Professor Department of History BBAU, Lucknow Abstract Eco-feminism seeks to explore and document the role of women in shaping human engagement with ecological process. It looks at the discourse of environmentalism from the perspective of gender. The paper is an attempt to trace the process of emergence of eco- feminism as an activist and scholarly engagement in India. Even though eco-feminism emerged as a response of activists to the ecological degradation and its impact on women initially, it gradually transformed into a scholarly engagement with wide range of socio- ecological issues with particular focus on the concerns of women. This paper proposes that several approaches have been evolved in the last three decades to capture the relationship between women and ecology in India. This review is useful in capturing the emerging discourse on eco-feminism and their focus in India. In nutshell this paper presents multiple voices of eco-feminism in conceptualising the relationship between women and nature. Key words: eco-feminism, ecology, gender, women, conservation, nature Introduction The phenomenon of environment acquired significant recognition in the last four decades in India. Besides fascinating scientific discoveries on the impact of ecological degradation and its consequences by environmental sciences, social and human sciences have also seriously been engaged in exploring the human agency in influencing the natural world. Eco-feminism emerged as activism and thought in the domain of human ecology. It conceptualises the human engagement with ecological world from the perspective of gender and emerged as an important filed of inquiry within the rubric of environmental studies. Drawing concepts and