Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis And The Aluminium Cartel
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788125038672
Length
xxix+742p., Illustrations; Maps; 23cm.
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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 ...
