Using rare archival footage and interviews with the legendary anthropologist, Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, and adiva | dG1fRWhQVEhaRUJaRXc
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00:00India is home to nearly 104 million Adivasis. Adivasi means original inhabitant. The Adivasis
00:22who have lived in the forest from ancient times and protected the ecosystem were called
00:28destroyers of the forest. According to the government's own statistics, between 1950
00:34and 1980, various state governments and the central government had diverted more than
00:40430,000 hectares of forests to mining, industries, farming and dams.
00:59Is Baghmara your village?
01:01Yes.
01:02And you don't know anything about it?
01:04No, we don't know anything.
01:05But you are saying that it is the land of the forest.
01:07Yes.
01:08Is it true that there is no village in that forest area?
01:10Adivasis don't live there?
01:12There must be around 24 villages affected in that area.
01:15When the mine opens, there will be an explosion.
01:17There will be a bomb.
01:19So where will the mountain go?
01:21It will go to the fields, right?
01:23Yes.
01:24And how much water will be needed for that?
01:26We will have to wash it.
01:28In our village, the gold that is mined, ask them how much water is needed.
01:32It is mined in the river.
01:34So it is a company.
01:36How big a house will it make?
01:38How much explosive material will it use?
01:40So the whole area will be destroyed.
01:44The environment there will be destroyed.
01:46Today, in a district, 24,000 crore rupees.
02:00In the coming days,
02:08I can foresee the change that will come in the life of this bastar.
02:26Your name is Bagli?
02:27Bagli.
02:28How many cows do you have?
02:29Forty.
02:30Forty cows.
02:31How many buffaloes do you have?
02:32I don't have buffaloes.
02:33You don't have buffaloes.
02:34Where will you take them?
02:35Where will you keep them?
02:36This is a government law.
02:37What can we do about it?
02:38I don't get anything in my stomach.
02:40I don't even get clothes.
02:41What can I do?
02:42What can we do about it?
02:43This is a government law.
02:44Sir, take them.
02:45Or you know it very well.
02:46You can auction them off in the court.
02:48I get what I want in my stomach.
02:50Take them.
02:52The forest acts really do not provide for saving of the rights which the tribals have.
02:59And there are no exceptions made.
03:02And the result is that the tribals who continuously live in the forest are being prosecuted under the various acts.