Maoist insurgency

Land struggles and growth of India’s red corridor

 
Published: Sunday 26 May 2013

Ho tribals lose hold of Saranda as mining is set to take over the pristine sal forest. A report and photographs by Sayantan Bera
“Land acquisition is at the centre of intense political and social disputes in the tribal hinterland of Chhattisgarh.
Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource alienation, particularly forests.

 

 

 

 

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