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indigenous land use
patterns foods: 1) rice 2) milk products export crops: 1) tea 2) rubber 3) pepper legacy of colonialism | ||
| India has a very large percentage of its population living in poverty and yet it is also highly interconnected to the world economy! A country in which 700 million people live in rural areas. In which 80 percent of the landholdings are small farms. In which 300 million people are illiterate. A 100 years after Gandhi broke taboos by cleaning his own latrines, the Bhangis caste remain the lowest in a system of graded inequality, untouchables even among untouchables! The Bhangis are condemned by hereditary caste roles to their lowly occupation: cleaning the municipal latrines of the larger cities in India, in some cases removing the shit with their bare hands. | ||||
