The Many Ways of Being Human

4.6

The Adivasi

In March the mahua blossoms fall at night in a village of the Hasdeo forest in Chhattisgarh, and women gather them before the deer do. Beneath that forest lies a coal deposit of several billion tons. The chapter looks at roughly a hundred million people on India's list of Scheduled Tribes, who share no language and no religion, only what was done to them.