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India: Struggles Over Tribal Lands

As industry moves in to tribal areas of India, people are fighting for their land rights

In India, 80 million tribal people live simply off the forest, or farm - but the land is rich in minerals and industry is moving in. As the government oversees a land grab, the people are fighting for their land rights - and dying in the process. Is industrialisation helping people, or destroying livelihoods - and lives?

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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project