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India's Tribes And Lower Castes Demand Legal Right To Shelter, Land

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India's Tribes And Lower Castes Demand Legal Right To Shelter, Land

by The Daily Eye Team March 29 2016, 3:16 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 36 secs

For as long as she can remember, Panchi Sahariya and those in her tribal community in central India have been threatened, harassed, beaten and even arrested for living on land which does not legally belong to them.But there is no where else to go, she says. For over 40 years, the forest village of Nibheri in Madhya Pradesh has been home to 150 families of the Sahariya tribe and their children have been born and brought up there.
"We have no land of our own. We had no choice but to live in the jungle. We survive from the little farming we do there. But there is no comfort, there is no security," she said.

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Deepa Gahlot


Deepa Gahlot writes extensively on cinema, theatre, the arts, women's issues for several publications and websites. In the past, she worked for tribal development with an NGO, ran a print features syndicate and wrote for a few short documentaries. She has won the National Award for Best Film Criticism, edited several cinema journals. Her work has appeared in anthologies on women's studies, theatre and cinema. Her published books include, The Prithviwallahs (co-authored with Shashi Kapoor), and biographies of Shah Rukh Khan and Shammi Kapoor, Take 2: 50 Films that Deserve a New Audience and Sheroes: 25 Daring Women of Bollywood.

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