MINING IN RAJASTHAN- A STUDY OF PATTERNS & PARADIGMS

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Rajasthan, India's largest state is home to many of the country's very rich as well as a large section of the abject poor. Livelihoods range from industrial activity, trade and commerce to agrarian activity which would include agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry. The exploitation of natural resources like minerals is also a reasonably large-scale activity. While a lot has been researched and written about conventional livelihoods in Rajasthan and their impact on the populace; the activity of mining minerals and ores, and the impact this is having on the fragile ecosystems of the desert state, its social frameworks, and the tenuous economic balance in the state's mining belts is less prolific.

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https://www.academia.edu/2559970/Mining_in_Rajasthan-A_Study_of_Patterns_and_Paradigms
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/pollution/Illegal-mining-threatens-Sariska-/articleshow/6732997.cms &
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/environment/pollution/Illegal-mining-threatens-Sariska-/articleshow/6732997.cms


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