Unbowed on Ancestral Soil
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This record documents a raw, explosive clash of elemental human sovereignty in the North Karanpura valley of Jharkhand (2009–2015), where an unarmed, forest-dependent populace erupted in pure, tempestuous revolt to burn down and obliterate one of the most monstrously predatory industrial land grabs in modern Asian history. Facing down a ₹36,000 crore corporate war machine, comprising the 3,960 MW Tilaiya Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) and its brutal MTPA Kerandari coal-stripping machinery unleashed by Reliance Power Limited and state security forces, the Adivasis, peasant farmers, and women collectives locked arms in unyielding rage to form an impenetrable wall of frontline defiance. The project sought to rip apart over 9,000 acres of sacred ancestral soil, desecrate holy Sarna groves, and slaughter ancient Sal forests, plotting the total structural execution of more than 20 villages and the merciless displacement of 50,000 human lives.