The mine that displaced India’s indigenous people - Al Jazeera English
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It was hard to believe looking at the layers of black pits that sink deep into the earth that this land used to be rice fields where cows roamed before the trucks transporting coal arrived.
Lath village also used to be home to 400 Adivasi families. Adivasis are India’s indigenous people, of which there are many different tribes. People in Lath are from the Kawar tribe. We could see signs of Adivasi culture. The older women wear the traditional Indian sarees without a blouse, using only the shawl of the saree to cover their chest. Their arms and faces are often covered in tattoos of tribal patterns, depicting trees, nature, animals - all things they consider sacred.
Families face displacement in India’s coal mining belt
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