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  • Jhirga Tana Bhagat, aged 50, reads a booklet on politics  on 11th of April 2009. Bhagat is the a political representative of a landless adivasi community and has been coming to the school to further learn how to deal with politicians. He travels one and a half hours to school by rickshaw twice a month. Netagiri Vidyalaya, founded in 2001, provides classes to students between the ages of 22 to 70 every Saturday, for 2 hours, in Ranchi, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National
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  • Meenu Ranjan (centre) listens carefully in class, while Raj Ranjan (unseen), the founder of Netagiri Vidyalaya (Politics School) teaches his students about the qualities of a leader in life, work and politics on the 11th of April 2009. Ranjan, who grew up in a family of politicians and a politician himself, founded this school in 2001 in Ranchi, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.   Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National
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  • Tribal women carry firewood along the unfinished canal of the Subanarekha multi-purpose project in Saharbera village, Chandil in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on the 11th of April 2009.   Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National
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  • Raj Ranjan, the founder of Netagiri Vidyalaya (Politics School) responds to his students' questions during the 2 hour long class on the 11th of April 2009. Ranjan, who grew up in a family of politicians and a politician himself, founded this school in 2001 in Ranchi, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.   Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National
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  • Local tribals are seen amongst the crowd gathered for the public rally of Congress president, Sonia Gandhi in Kunti, Jharkhand, India on the 11th of April 2009.   Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Local villagers and party supporters are seen at a public rally of the Congress Party President, Sonia Gandhi in Khunti, in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on the 11th of April 2009.   Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National.
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  • Local villagers listen to the speech of Congress Party President, Sonia Gandhi to arrive at a public rally in Khunti, in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on the 11th of April 2009.   Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National.
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  • Local villagers are seen waiting for the Congress Party President, Sonia Gandhi to arrive at a public rally in Khunti, in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on the 11th of April 2009.   Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National.
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  • in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on the 11th of April 2009.   Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • 50 year old Jhirga Tana Bhagat, drives home a point during a discussion in class on 11th of April 2009. Bhagat is the a political representative of a landless adivasi community and has been coming to the school to further learn how to deal with politicians. He travels one and a half hours to school by rickshaw twice a month. Netagiri Vidyalaya, founded in 2001, provides classes to students between the ages of 22 to 70 every Saturday, for 2 hours, in Ranchi, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National
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  • Raman Balabh, a teacher in Netagiri Vidyalaya (Politics School) explains an important point about politics to his 20 students during class on the 11th of April 2009. Netagiri Vidyalaya, founded in 2001, provides classes to students between the ages of 22 to 70 every Saturday, for 2 hours, in Ranchi, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National
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  • Students in Netagiri Vidyalaya (Politics School) laugh and discuss politics and leadership while in class with Raj Ranjan, the founder of the school. Ranjan, who grew up in a family of politicians and a politician himself, founded this school in 2001 in Ranchi, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.   Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National
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  • Jhirga Tana Bhagat, aged 50, listens attentively in class  on 11th of April 2009. Bhagat is the a political representative of a landless adivasi community and has been coming to the school to further learn how to deal with politicians. He travels one and a half hours to school by rickshaw twice a month. Netagiri Vidyalaya, founded in 2001, provides classes to students between the ages of 22 to 70 every Saturday, for 2 hours, in Ranchi, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National
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  • in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on the 11th of April 2009.   Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Tribal women carry firewood along the unfinished canal of the Subanarekha multi-purpose project in Saharbera village, Chandil in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on the 11th of April 2009.   Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National
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  • in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on the 11th of April 2009.   Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • A young girl plays near the mines after a hard day's labour in the open-pit coal mines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand on 12th March 2010. Even as India is seeing an economic growth rate of 8.8 per cent (2009/10), crushing poverty and malnutrition are harsh realities for millions of women and children. Many inequities are tied to the hindu caste system, gender and class. The mining children, like the rest of their families, have never been to school..Photo by Suzanne Lee.
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  • A young girl miner walks barefoot for about 1.5km to transport heavy loads of coal on her head from the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.
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  • A young girl hacks and pries at the coal walls at the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Sent out to work in hazardous working conditions at extremely young ages, young children work as hard labourers for less than a dollar a day in the coalmines of Dhanbad, the richest coal reserve of India.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • After a full day of transporting coal by foot, this young girl miner spends 5 hours during her evenings burning coal piles on the fringes of the coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. The earth is literally on fire as vast subterranean coal fires burn out of control beneath the villages on the fringe of the mines, threatening sudden ground cave-ins that swallow entire homes, but the mining families still live and work in these conditions due to abject poverty.  .
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • A mining minor stands in the wind that sweeps coal dust through the deep gorges in the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Children working in these mines have no access to education or healthcare and have never been to school, like the rest of their families.
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  • A young barefooted miner fills her basket with coal, and prepares to carry head-loads of heavy coal rocks for kilometers, across sharp stones and hot coals in the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.
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  • A young girl picking and transporting raw coal through the early evening in the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.
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  • A boy continually rakes through his pile of burning coke coal in the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. After burning the coal for 4 hours, it is cooled and is ready to be packed and sold to illegal middlemen.
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  • A young girl looks at the mine walls while waiting for her load of coal in the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • A miner returns to the coal-picker's hamlet on the perimeters of the open-pit coalmines after a long day of work underground in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. In the coal-picker's hamlet, every member of the families living there work as coalminers. While the women and children work in the open-pit mines, the boys and men work underground. On 6 September 2006, 54 miners died in a major underground blast at the Bhatdih colliery in the Jharia coalmines. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • A young girl miner covers herself with a blanket as she warms herself near the fires of burning coal piles at dusk at the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • A young teenaged miner carries heavy solid coal rocks on her head while walking barefoot for kilometers, across sharp stones and hot coals in the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. She, like many other girls, has been working since childhood in the mines and has never been to school. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • After transporting coal by foot from dawn to dusk, the young miners spend 4 hours of their evenings burning coal piles, to prepare the coal for sale the next day, on the fringes of the coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. The coal-pickers live in a small coal-picker's hamlet a distance away from a higher-caste hamlet where the children go to school and do not mingle with the lower-caste coal-pickers. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • A young girl looks at the mines from her village after a hard day's labour in the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.  Even as India is seeing an economic growth rate of 8.8 per cent (2009/10), crushing poverty and malnutrition are harsh realities for millions of women and children. Many inequities are tied to the hindu caste system, gender and class..
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  • Young children hide their faces from a gust of dusty wind as they watch over high quality coke coal being burnt on the fringes of the mines in Jharia, Jharkhand, India.
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  • A young girl is seen standing on a precarious perch prying and hacking at the raw coal walls in the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
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Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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