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Derang Village, Koal Karo region near Ranchi.
Celebrating the harvest. |
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Derang Village, Koal Karo region near Ranchi.
The Munda ancestral stones mark the passing of family members and
link the living to their ancestral lands. The families that will
be displaced by the Koal Karo dam fear that in losing the stones
they will also lose an important part of their identity. |
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Derang Village, Koal Karo region near Ranchi. Derang
village and a neighbouring village playing a hockey match as part
of the harvest celebrations. |
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The Harvest at Derang village, Koal Karo region near
Ranchi. |
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A goat sacrifice to celebrate the harvest at Derang village, Koal Karo region near
Ranchi. |
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A goat sacrifice to celebrate the harvest at Derang village, Koal Karo region near
Ranchi. |
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Derang village, Koal Karo region near
Ranchi. |
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Derang village, Koal Karo region near
Ranchi. |
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Jelsindhi, Madhya Pradesh. This village will be submerged by the SSP dam. |
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The Narmada River near Jelsindhi, Madhya Pradesh. |
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Vadaj II resettlement site, Gujarat. Families were
resettled here from the area flooded by the SSP dam on the Narmada
River. Few of the families have been given any land and the men
struggle to get casual work, the sudden change in circumstance forces
many to alcoholism. The government provide metal sheeting as building
material, this heats up during the day until it too hot to touch. |
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Adivasi displaced by the West Bokaro open cast coal
mine near Hazaribagh, Bihar. Traditional stills are used to illegally
produce liquor which they sell illegally, a crime that can carry
a long sentence. |
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Naimangron resettlement site, Gujarat. The people
here displaced by the SSP dam on the Narmada River are forced to
labour for rich landowners since they have been given no land of
their own. Being at the bottom of the pile they get the worst jobs
such as spraying toxic chemicals without any protection. |
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The resettlement site at Nagapura, near Nagarahole National Park. The area used to be a brush forest until it was cleared to make way for the resettlement site. |
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Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. Many Adivasi families displaced
by the Bargi dam on the Narmada River have disappeared into city
slums. Here families from the same village have crammed together
in a tiny area of a large city slum. No provision was made to resettle
villages affected by Bargi dam and families were left to get out
of the way of the rising waters and move out of the area. |
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Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. Many Adivasi families displaced
by the Bargi dam on the Narmada River have disappeared into city
slums. Here families from the same village have crammed together
in a tiny area of a large city slum. No provision was made to resettle
villages affected by Bargi dam and families were left to get out
of the way of the rising waters and move out of the area. |
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Bubaneshwar, Orissa,. After the 1999 cyclone. Many
Adivasi displaced by Bauxite mining ion Orissa have moved into the
slums of Bubaneshwar. Most of the slums where destroyed by a major
cyclone in October 1999. No aid reached the slums and people where
left to rebuild their lives once again. |
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The Tribal Habitat Museum, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
A Sunday visitor inspects one of the pristine example dwellings
on show at the museum. The museum received heavy criticism for originally
having tribal people living in the houses to make the exhibits more
authentic. |
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The Tribal Habitat Museum, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. |
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Representation of an Adivasi man, part of an exhibit
in the Shoopaneshwar wild life sanctuary visitors centre. According
to the NBA the 40 000 real Adivasi who live within the sanctuary's
boundaries are being "persuaded" to leave. |
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The CYSD NGO offices, Bubaneshwar, Orissa. |
