The mineral map of India is one that will gladden any potential investor: vast tracts of territory, overlying massive, rich--and some entirely untapped--deposits a of minerals like coal, iron, bauxite, manganese and chromite. For investors, these hold promises of unimagined wealth' for the land's lawmakers, these constitute the very pillars of their idea of the 'Modern State'. Prospecting and extraction, with each group helping the other, could be ...
