A Baiga woman surveys the land in Amaniya panchayat, Chhattisgarh
Heera Bai
Conflict/Dispossession
Conservation betrayals in Central India
Heera Bai reports: Across the Tribal Belt of Central India, indigenous communities are constantly being evicted from ancestral lands to make way for development projects, industry, tourism and government-sanctioned conservation initiatives. In the states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the Baiga community have faced a legacy of evictions that dates back more than 30 years….
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