Foreword by Arundhati Roy
PREFACE The Aluminium Companies and How They Affect Us

PART I. Sustainable Lifestyles in an Age of Aluminium

1. ‘It all starts with dirt’
2. Aluminium’s Secret History
3. Konds and Khondalite
4. Bauxite Business in Orissa
5. Kashipur’s ‘Development’
6. Lanjigarh: Vedanta’s Assault on the Mountain of Law

PART II. Niyam Raja Meets the World-Wide Web: Aluminium’s Social Structure

7. Under Mining Law
8. Aluminium India
9. The World-Wide Web

PART III. ‘Aluminum for Defence and Prosperity’

10. Aluminium Wars
11. ‘Prosperity’ and Price Fixing
12. The Real Costs of Production
13. Cultural Genocide: The Real Impacts of ‘Development-Induced Displacement’
14. Cost Benefit Analysis

PART IV. Company Rule and the System of Endemic Exploitation

15. Corporate Takeover
16. Starvation Deaths and Foreign Aid
17.Moneylender Colonialism and Bad Economics: The World Bank Cartel
18. NGOs and the Culture of Appropriation
19. Homo Hierarchicus:Company Man

PART V. Movements for Life

20. Andolan
21. Sense of Sacredness

Notes to the Chapters
Glossary: Dramatis Personae
List of Illustrations
Appendices
Bibliography