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Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Villagers separating the wheat from the straw with the help of the fan.

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Villagers separating the wheat from the straw with the help of the fan.

Karari, Jharkhand, India: A father holds his son in his arms while sitting along the only water pond of the river during the dry season. Due to heavy...

Kurari, Jharkhand, India: Indian women washing their clothes in the river bed.

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A villager scraping the soil in search for mica. Mica mining employs everyone in Koderma, from grown-ups to children. Once du...

Dhab, Jharkhand , India: A group of miners search for mica in the hills that used to be covered with forest. In Dhab, a rural village of 2,000 people...

Dhab, Jharkhand, Inida: A patch of dry land. Due to heavy deforestation in the past 10 years the temperature have significantly increased and are maki...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Mantu Turi, a 35-year-old father of four kids, started mining mica 25 years ago, going into the forest together with his fath...

Dhab, Jharkhand , India: A portly man with a frank and contagious smile, 35-year-old Bimal Prasad Yadav became an illegal mica agent five years ago,...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Indian girls in their family house.

Dahb, Jharkhand, India: An Adivasi woman carrying two goats in her arms.

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A 22-year-old from Dhab, Gita Devi sits in the mica mine while holding the metal stick she uses to scrap the surface in searc...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A 22-year-old from Dhab, Gita Devi carries a basket full of mica back to her home. "I started doing this job 10 years ago, tog...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Indian girls in their family house.

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Villagers collecting mica.

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A villager deposits the mica she has just collected in the courtyard of her house.

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A little boy opens his family house's main door, on the left next to the kitchen piles of mica bags are seen on the floor. Th...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A woman carries her baby in her arms while walking under the shade of the tree that separates her house from the mica mine.

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A miner stands on top of a hill used as mica mine. In Dhab, a rural village of 2,000 people in the poor Indian state of Jhark...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Young villagers who have just returned from a morning spent in the mines comb their hair and wash their face before lunch. Mi...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A villager working in the mica mine.

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A villager collecting mica.

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A group of villagers gather under the tree before starting to mine mica. In Dhab, a rural village of 2,000 people in the poor...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Villagers picking up mahua fruits that fell from the tree. Mahua is used to produce local alcohol which will be sold at the m...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A young villager scattering mahua fruits on the soil for them to dry under the sun. Mahua is used to produce local alcohol an...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Female miners working in the only legal mine in the State of Jharkhand. According to the Indian Bureau of Mines, in 2012-13 th...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A miner working in the only legal mine in the State of Jharkhand. According to the Indian Bureau of Mines, in 2012-13 the lega...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A miner holds raw mica in their hands. Before being sent to Kolkata mica will be sent to Jhumri Tilaiya's factories, 30 km aw...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A miner holding two pieces of high quality mica in her hands. Used in a myriad such as electronics, car paints and radars, mic...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Miners push a trolley full of mica in the only legal mine in the State of Jharkhand. According to the Indian Bureau of Mines,...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Miners push a trolley full of mica in the only legal mine in the State of Jharkhand. According to the Indian Bureau of Mines,...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A miner working in the only legal mine in the State of Jharkhand. According to the Indian Bureau of Mines, in 2012-13 the leg...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Her gaze clouded by a resigned smile, 60-year-old Kalabati Devi returned to Dhab five years ago, after splitting from her husb...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A miner working in the only legal mine in the State of Jharkhand. According to the Indian Bureau of Mines, in 2012-13 the leg...

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: Female villagers working in the mica mine.

Dhab, Jharkhand, India: A villager cleans the floor of her courtyard before laying down the fruits.

Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India: Bodh Gaya is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Gaya district. It is fa...

Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India: Bodh Gaya is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Gaya district. It is fa...

Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India: Indian children visiting Bodh Gaya. Bodh Gaya is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Templ...