A review by krystowska
In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India by Alpa Shah

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Interesting ethnography of the indigenous Munda people in the small village of Tapu in Jharkhand in India. Takes up topics as the inhabitants relation to the land itself, the other people in neighbouring towns, their traditional culture in contact with urban middle class influences, work opportunities, the naxalites et c.