Capping the biggest mountains in South Odisha are some of the world's best deposits of Bauxite, the ore for aluminium--mineral wealth to bring prosperity to one of India's poorest states. But for tribal people who have lived around them since history began, these mountains are sacred--not a resource to be exploited, but a source of life itself, through the water they store, and release in perennial streams.So metal factories, built in tribal areas with a ...
Sacrificing People is a new, updated edition of Felix Padel’s classic case study of colonialism, originally entitled The Sacrifice of Human Being: British Rule and the Konds of Orissa. The journey of the book, like the struggle of the Konds, is from colonial intrusion to developmental destruction.The book puts into perspective the communal murders and ethnic cleansing that happened in the district of Kandhamal where the Konds are concentrated, in ...