TY - BOOK AU - Kharkongor, Gideon L AU - Dutta, Rajesh TI - Meghalaya T2 - Status of adivasis/indigenous peoples mining series 4 SN - 9789350022849 U1 - 305.800954 PY - 2014/// CY - New Delhi PB - Aakar KW - Land Peoples Study; Adivasis/indigenous peoples KW - Meghalaya KW - India N1 - Meghalaya, an overwhelmingly tribal majority State, is also the most mined state in the northeast. Largely unregulated, the mining has impacted the social, economic and environmental fabric of the regions subject to large scale mining. Land ownership is predominantly on customary and traditional lines that differ from tribe to tribe. Mining has put to strain, the communal governance of land portending more conflicts ER -