INTRODUCTION: Places/Spaces
Stuti Goswami

I. PLANTS, ECOLOGY AND CLIMATE

1. Centering the Green Voice: Plant Narratives and Ecological Reassessment in
North East India
Kamal Kumar Tanti

2. Harmony in Diversity: Exploring the Rich Flora and Ecological Resilience of
North East India

Subhajit Choudhary, Sewagi Savapandit and Sthiti Porna Dutta

II. PLANTS AND THE CONTOURS OF CULTURE

1. Plant-based Beliefs, Ethnic Cultures, and Plant Conservation
Diganta Oza

2. Liminal Spaces of Identity and Memory: the Karbi Tribe's Journey from Forest to
City
Akash Basumatari

3. Plant Biodiversity and its Cultural SigniWicance in North East India-Sewagi
Savapandit, Subhajit Choudhary and Sthiti Porna Dutta

III. PLANTS IN/AND ORALITY

1. Serenades from Forests and Farming Fields: Folk Songs from India's North East
Stuti Goswami

2. Unearthing Vegetal Heritage of Human Thought in the Medical Folklore of North
East India
Diganta Oza and Stuti Goswami

IV. THE WORD AND THE IMAGE

1. (Re)Presentation of Plants in Vaishnavite Literatures of Assam and Manipur
Dhurjjati Sarma

2. Theorizing Anthropocene in Colonial Plantation Narratives: A Critical Reading of
Umakanta Sarma's novel Ejak Manuh Ekhon Aranya
Gourisikha Borgohain

3. Plant, Memory, Identity: Exploring Interstices in the Shillong Poetry Movement
Aditi Ghosh and Stuti Goswami

V. PLANTS, HOMES & THE HEARTH

1. Agricultural Production along the Brahmaputra River
Munmi Saikia

2. Opportunities and Challenges in Cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in
Assam
Priyanka Patowari

3. Role of Plants and Flowers in Homemaking Away from Home: Documenting
Social Media
Kaustav Padmapati

4. Plants, Households, and the Visual Aesthetic in North East India-Siddhanth
Purkayastha and Stuti Goswami

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