Running Out of Time

In many ways the heart of indigenous India, mineral-rich Jharkhand is and has been at the core of India's industrial development after independence. There, the indigenous Adivasi people have borne the brunt of what is arguably India's most fundamental developmental conflict, which has pushed them to the verge of extinction as an agricultural people.

RUNNING OUT OF TIME locates the crisis of Adivasi agriculture in the larger context of Jharkhand's political and economic history, positing the indigenous Adivasi people and their ecosystem against overwhelming national interventions that have carved out an industrial and urban "state," fundamentally altering Jharkhand's environment and demography.