In 1730, at Khejarli, near Jodhpur, Amrita Devi and 362 fellow villagers of the Bishnoi community laid down their lives to protect the sacred Khejri trees. By embracing the trees to stop them from being cut on the orders of Maharaja Abhay Singh in Rajasthan, they carried out one of the world’s earliest recorded acts of environmental protest. Guru Jambeshwarji,… Read more