Robert Wallis’s work on the effect of India’s economic boom on Adivasi (tribal) groups in Jharkand State will be exhibited at the Brunei Gallery at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies until June 25th 2011.
The state of Jharkhand is home to one of the largest Adivasi populations in India. It is also the location of an estimated 40% of the country's deposits of coal, iron ore, uranium and other minerals considered essential for India's industrial and energy needs. Unfortunately for Jharkhand's Adivasis, the mineral wealth lies beneath the land that they have farmed and hunted on for millennia but for which they do not hold title deeds.
As the original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent, Adivasis have ancient land rights protected by law. But 'in the national interest' they are being forced to leave their ancestral lands to make way for new mines, steel mills and hydroelectric projects, with little or no compensation.
You can see the full story on the Panos Pictures website
here.
Panos Pictures is a photojournalism website specialising in global social issues. Tim Hetherington, the journalist killed in Libya this week, was one of its photographers. You can see his work
here.
Details on opening times of the Brunei Gallery can be found
here.
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