Cultural genocide and the rhetoric of sustainable mining in East India

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 333-341

  Padel, Felix ^a   Das, Samarendra ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adivasis; Orissa; Rhetoric; Sustainable mining

Indexed keywords

GENOCIDE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LANDOWNERSHIP; MINING; POVERTY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VIOLENCE;

INDIA; ORISSA;

EID: 77956196266     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: 1469364X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2010.503871     Document Type: Article

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