Speakers:

Amit Julka, Academic and Researcher, International Relations and Foreign Policy
Nitin Sethi, Editor, the reporters’ collective
Nihalsing Rathod, Lawyer


This series critically interrogates the Indian state’s 2026 “Maoist-free” deadline and its violent consequences for Indigenous peoples’ survival and self-determination. Session 7 will build on previous sessions 2 and 4, which elaborated how the state-corporate nexus drives land grabbing in Adivasi regions, focusing on how State violence protects corporate mining interests.

This session will first provide a broad overview of the political relations between corporations and India’s economic and development policy-making. The session will then proceed to unpack the long and short term corporate control over the Indian state's policies in Adivasi regions impacting Indigenous land and forest rights and resistance to mining interests and militarization.