Uprooted shows how India's forest keepers became its most haunted outsiders

Ita Mehrotra's Uprooted, through evocative prose and stunning black-and-white illustrations capturing years of fieldwork, narrates the displacement of Van Gujjar and Taungya communities

Uprooted: A Graphic Account of the Struggle for Forest Rights

by Ita Mehrotra

Published by Context

144 pages ₹599

  What is a nation for? What is a government supposed to do? The textbook answer is that governments are supposed to protect its citizens, to serve those who grant it authority. But what if the government is your biggest threat? When, in the name of conservation, your disappearance is demanded? When development begins with your displacement? When the forest you’ve tended, protected, known by its bark and seasons and animal movements, suddenly belongs