2. She became a symbol of environmental conservation when she, along with 363 other Bishnoi men and women, sacrificed their lives to save the Khejri trees in the 1730s. Image: FB Image: FB Image: FB ...

In an excerpt from the first chapter, Amrita Devi and the 363 Martyrs, Goodman recounts the legendary tale of lives sacrificed to save trees on Bishnoi land. On Monday 11 September 1730 (although ...

In 1730, a local woman called Amrita Devi Bishnoi of the present day Khejrali village near Jodhpur was so steadfast in her belief of this tenet that she stood with an unwavering courage against a ...

The monsoon rains were recent so a woman of the village, Amrita Devi, was tending the crops ... Her life worked because she was a Bishnoi who lived by a clear set of twenty-nine rules set down ...