India: Jeevan Shala - School Of Life - Video Report On Adivasi Run School In Narmada River Valley

India: Jeevan Shala - School Of Life - Video Report On Adivasi Run School In Narmada River Valley   This is the story of 'Jeevanshalas' -- Schools of Life -- run by the Adivasi (Tribal) people's movement in the Narmada River Valley in Central India.   In the early eighties, the Indian government started to construct a series of large dams on the Narmada river. These dams threatened to destroy the Adivasi communities that lived on the river-bank by inundating large parts of the Narmada valley....

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