Four decades ago in 1983 a few activists from what was then the Social Work and Research Centre and is now the Barefoot College in Tilonia in Rajasthan, came to Alirajpur district in Madhya Pradesh and teamed up with a few Bhil Adivasi activists to form the Khedut Mazdoor Chetna Sangath (KMCS). The mass organisation was set up against heavy odds to fight for socio-economic justice and ecological sustainability in an area which had been devastated by the independent Indian state in pursuit of urban industrial development, making the Adivasis thieves in their own backyard and converting a once proud community into labourers contributing to primitive capitalist accumulation.
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