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There's a country inside ours, where no one lies, where there are no thieves or beggars, where no one thinks of raping a woman, where no cash changes hands, where matriarchy rules. It is home to a group of Adivasis, who have been following these practices from ancient times. We call them uncivilized. The protagonist Rajinder arrives here to discover an uncorrupted society where love, sex and personal freedom are unhindered. After modern day classics like Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit and There's Gunpowder in the Air, Manoranjan Byapari delivers another must-read in Anya Bhuvan. Set in the dense forests of Chattisgarh, among the communities who make it their home, Anya Bhuvan paints a portrait of the lives and the cultures of the Indigenous communities who have historically been denigrated as 'non-modern' and 'uncivilized' by urban India.