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Dai Singh Majhi, a leader of the Niyamgiri Surakshya Samidi group in Belemba village, with his wife, Dipai, Orissa, India. The Dongria Kondh are a protected 'Scheduled' Caste of Original (aboriginal) people that practice animism and live a settled rural life. Their deity is a mountain from which a mining company, Vedanta is seeking to extract bauxite which will largely destroy the mountain and the Kondh's traditional way of life.

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Dai Singh Majhi, a leader of the Niyamgiri Surakshya Samidi group in Belemba village, with his wife, Dipai, Orissa, India. The Dongria Kondh are a protected 'Scheduled' Caste of Original (aboriginal) people that practice animism and live a settled rural life. Their deity is a mountain from which a mining company, Vedanta is seeking to extract bauxite which will largely destroy the mountain and the Kondh's traditional way of life.