India's Conquest of the Americas

India's Conquest of the Americas

by Gene D. Matlock

In the late 1970s, when I discovered that ancient India not only once owned the world, but gave us all our religions as well, I felt like a second Columbus . Moreover, I naively thought the world would applaud my work. I soon discovered that all the truths in the world won't alter the mindset of people steeped in sectarian religious beliefs, and that their historical conditionings, though changeable, don't become unfrozen easily, either.

Where the truths of ancient Hindu history are concerned, my struggle has been quite bumpy, but millions of people are finally beginning to listen. Yet, much resistance remains, especially among those foolishly regarded as orthodox academicians. By the time you finish this article, you will realize that the Hindu history books will soon be rewritten.

Those who have read my previous articles will realize I have repeated information they already know. But there is one set of facts they don't know yet. These are the ones that will cause the rewriting of Hindu history.

The Vedas tell a number of valid facts about ancient America . They call Mexico and Central America Patala. In Sanskrit, Patala means 'one of the seven regions under the earth and the abode of serpents' According to the myths, an eagle named Garuda transported thousands of ancient mariners, called snakes (Nagas, there in its beak. Although I feel they came here in ocean-going ships, the implication is clear that they could have flown here as well. The legends of the O'odhams of Arizona describe such a sky-born ship. They call it Nah-Big, a term definitely derived from the Sanskrit Nag-Bhaga or Snake God. One cannot help but become impressed when he reads the O'odham stories of the Nah-Big. It is clear that it was some kind of flying ship. The O'odhams even speak of it as being propelled by an energy generator having positive (male) and (female) female poles.

Did a Patala ever exist in ancient Mexico? It certainly did and does. In the Mayan-derived dialects along Mexico's northern east coast down to and including the Central America republics, Patal means 'abandoned or deserted land; without people.'

Naga-like derivatives also exist in Mexico . In Sanskrit, Nag-asta means Western Naga Land . The Mayan lowlands down to and including Costa Rica are called Nacaste.

According to Hindu legends, a naga could turn into a human being. In Mexico, a nagual was a were-animal. Nagual derived from the Sanskrit Nag-Baal, meaning Snake Demon.

The Mayans of Mexico and Central America also played an integral part in Hindu mythology and history. Just as in Mexico and Central America, they were mathematicians (measurers), astronomers, military strategists, magicians, wise-men and builders. The Meso--American Mayan's knowledge of astronomy and time-measurement was so accurate that they even felt confident enough to predict the end of the world--or some worldwide catastrophic cosmic event -- in 2012 AD. The Mayans of India also predicted the same type of event, but they didnÕt agree with their Patalan brothers on the same date.

In his book, Remedy the Frauds in Hinduism, Indian historian Purushothoma Chon mentioned a Siberian origin of the Mayans: 'Maya architects are mentioned in our epic Mahabharata. Maya people are in Siam and East Asia . There is a place called Mayyava in Kerala. The Utttar Pradesh people have the meaning of Mayya as mother in phrases like 'Gang ki Maya.' There is a vast area in Russian East Siberia as well as a river by name Maya.' (p. 28.) The Nagas of Tibet even had a similar bar and dot counting system, along with the same words, to the Naga Mayas of Mexico.

The Hindu Naga Mayas also belonged to a powerful Dravidian group of Nagas called Asuras. Whether or not the Asuras were demi-gods or demons depended on one's point of view. The leader of these Naga Asuras was the Hindu (really a Bulgarian) god of precious metals, wealth, traders and even agriculturists (really a group) named Kubera or Khyber (Kheever). For Christians and Jews he was Heber. This Kubera, Khyber, or Heber was leader of a horde called Yakshas or Yakhas (Biblical Joktan?). They were reputed to be both superior mentally and materially. Their servants were called Guhyakhas (Yakha shit). Today, in Judaism, which evolved from the Kubera teachings, the term has changed to Goy, but the meaning has never changed. The Kubera hordes, composed of Yakshas or Yakhas and their Guyakha underclass captured most of India's undesirables, the unredeemably savage and cannibilistic Rakshasas, exiling them to Ceylon or Lanka. Later, they exiled them to Patala, supposedly in air ships.

The Mayas had their own nation in Lanka, also named Maya, with a sub-group called Laks (Mexico's Lacandones). It is a strange anomaly that Rama, Lenka (Lanka), and Lacandon Mayan peoples exist in Meso-America, including the inhabitants of Yucatan (Yakhustan; Joktan?). As further evidence that Kubera or Khyber first settled the Americas , the Meso-Americans told the Spaniards that a strange people had once gone there, naming all of the North American continent Quivira (Kheeveria). The most sacred mountain of the Arizona O'odhams was the gold-filled, rattlesnake infested Baboquivari. There were also Quiburi people and a Quiburi creek in O'ofham country. Kubera--like names also exist among the Caddo Indians of Texas and Louisiana, as well as the North Mexican mining state of Coahuila (true pronunciation Kovira), the Sonoran mining town of Caborca , and the Texas and Northern Mexican Cahuillas (Kaviras). There are also the New Mexican Indian ruins of Gran Quivira and Koari. It is from this international word Kubera that we have derived the words quarry and copper. Yes, you'll find Kubera's name pronounced in one form or another all over the world.

You have surely heard of the so-called Aryans. In India, many Hindus love to mention them as a superior race of people who came to them from Uttara Kuru ( Siberia and the North Pole). Yet, the Kurus (Ari) and Ramas were just the Indian people themselves who once inhabited the whole of the Eastern Hemisphere -- Kurus the north, and Ramas, the Indian subcontinent itself. In the mythologies of all the world, the Kurus (Turks) and the Hindus (Ramas) are the Holy Twins. Although both groups were partners (twins) in international trading, the Kurus (Turks) provided the shipping and the Ramas their services as warrior traders. The Ramas were ferocious warriors, just as they were described in the Mahabharata.

It just so happens that the Carib (Cariva) Indians of the Caribbean islands claimed that their creator gods were the Kuru Rumani. The Mexicans will tell you that the state of Veracruz derives its name from Ver a Cruz (Seeing at a Cross), but such a name is preposterous for a variety of reasons. The people of Vera Cruz are really descendants of Carib Indians, called Vira--Kurus (Hero Kurus). Emperor Moctezuma of Mexico himself told the Spaniards that the Mexican royal family descended from a ruling eastern caste called Colhua, the only way the Aztecs could pronounce Kaurava.

I could provide almost an infinity of evidence to validate my claim that the Kurus and Ramas (Aryans and sub-continent Hindus) first colonized the Americas , but that's not necessary. What I have to say in the last part of this article is sufficient unto itself.

The Hindus of antiquity had an ancient astro-geographical map with four lotus petals pointing in the cardinal directions, called Mt. Meru (the world mountain). The point of the left petal fell on a seaport called Ketumala or Chetumala. Both pronunciations were used. The lower center petal was Jambudvipa (subcontinent India ).

One day, I decided to examine a map of Meso-America in order to find out whether a Chetumala or Ketumala ever existed there. It did not take me long to find out that Chetumal is even now a safe port in what is presently Belize, Central America. (See the illustrations below). The name of this port of Chetumal has never changed in all these thousands of years. According to the available evidence, I knew I had found the Chetumala depicted on the point of the left petal of the Mt. Meru drawing. But the skeptics and so-called 'historians and mytholigists' who are dead set against India knowing the truth about herself, for foolish reasons only they can know, insisted that the Central American Chetumal was just a coincidence. What I have never revealed to anyone until now is that the Belize Chetumal is absolutely nothing compared to the total proof you will learn in my upcoming conclusion to this article. However, my life is steadily going to its inevitable end. In order to produce fascinating articles, I have spent too much time writing anti-climaxes, while simultaneously honing my own historical skills to near perfection, building up to the time when the hero finally gets the girl. I must act now while there is still time. 






You will notice that just to the left of the Chetumal petal there is a body of water called the Kashyapa Sea . A meaning of Kashyapa is 'sea turtle; tortoise.' We now call the Kashyapa Sea the Caribbean Sea . It is commonly known that more sea turtles of different species inhabit Meso--America and Eastern Central America than any other place in the world. One species in the region, the Hawksbill, has always been hunted for its beautiful shell which, for thousands of years, has been used to make fine ornaments. In ancient days, there were uncountable millions of Hawksbills in the Caribbean Sea . Because of centuries of feverish and constant harvesting, the Hawksville population has shrunk to an estimated 22,000 nesting females. Belize itself is a composite Sanskrit word Bala= Facing the East; The Rising Sun. Isha or Isa = God Shiva. Belize indeed faces the east.

But not even this is enough proof for those wanting to keep India hidden under the rug. So now it's time to reveal something that no rug can ever hide. Chetumala or Ketumala is not the official name of the left petal. It is the official name of the harbor itself. The full territory was called Aparagoyana or just Goyana ( Guyana )! Apara=Western; being in the west of; a bad shore. Guh=concealed; hide; keep secret; a hiding place; filth; etc. Yana=journey; going; moving; riding; a vehicle of any kind; ship, etc. (See ancient Geography of Ayodhya, by Dr. Shyam Narain Pande; p. 8, plus 87 other references listed in the Internet.)

Aparagoyana ( Guyana ) clearly tells us that the Guhyakas and the Rakshasas were being exiled to Guyana because the civilized world was ashamed of them. Today, the name Guyana has shrunk to just the top right half of South America, but a sizable portion of the territory still retains enough of the ancient name of the left petal to let us know that the total region was in no way named Ketu Mal but Apara-Guyana. On the map itself, you will see Guyana as the first nation. The second nation's name has been changed to Suriname, which is also derived from Sanskrit. Suri is a name of God Krishna. Nama=Named. The third one at the right is French Guiana or French Guyana.

It is a fascinating anomaly about these nations that the majority population is of East Indian descent. People of African descent come next. After that, mixed races, European (mostly Portuguese) and Chinese.

So that seafarers could know for sure when they were following the trade winds correctly to Central America, the old Hindu legends gave extremely exact information to let them know they were sailing between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. According to any of the 87 descriptions of Apara-Goyana or Guyana you can find in the websites describing it, 'When the sun rises in Jambudv’pa, it is the middle watch of the night in Aparagoyana; sunset in Aparagoyana is midnight in Jambud’pa, and sunrise is noon in Jambud’pa, sunset in Pubbavideha and midnight in Uttara Kuru.' How can any astro-geographical description be more accurate than that?

So now, my Hindu friends, you have this part of your history back. And the orthodox historian villains are growling, 'Curses, foiled again.!' It's not so preposterous as Kubera 'spending ten thousand years with his head below water,' either. It is one hundred percent fact. No skeptic or religio-cultural enemy of India can ever twist this truth to mean something it is not. The truth of India's dominance and colonization of the ancient Americas is nakedly exposed to the whole world. If you don't take the initiative and start rewriting your history books right now, you have no one but yourselves to blame when the self-worshiping 'rational' academics try to cannibalize you!

I want to add that I also accidentally stumbled upon the method of unlocking the simple to learn secret of decoding the so-called mysteries of Hindu mythology. They aren't mysteries at all but probably the most scientific books ever written. Once a person learns this trade secret, he can make valid conclusions whereas others, especially 'smart rational, can't be fooled western scientists and orthodox historians' cannot -- and won't. The critics of the Hindu holy books would really feel like -- or actually become -- fools if they knew what they were mocking. They're really quite easy to unravel -- much like finding the way out of simple mazes. Since I have concentrated mostly on the mystery of whether or not India and the Turks, a.k.a. The Holy Twins, discovered the Americas, I may have worked myself out of a job. I must find other Hindu oriented mysteries to unravel.

My detractors often say to me, 'Well, if that trade secret is so easy to learn, why don't you give it to the world?'

This is my answer: Mankind is worse ethically and morally than the most brutish of apes. He appears determined to kill not only himself, but everything else on this planet. So why did Thomas A. Edison destroy many of his most potentially lethal mathematical discoveries before he died? Or why did the widow of history's most famous sexologist, Sir Richard Burton, burn his papers after his death? Or let me put it this way: Are you pleased to know that Iran has learned how to manufacture nuclear weapons?


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Sunken Ice Age City Off Indian Coast: Carbon Dating Says 7,500 B.C.

Sunken Ice Age City Off Indian Coast

Carbon Dating Says 7,500 B.C.

 

by Linda Moulton Howe

The underwater archaeological site that could be more than 9,000 years old  is about 30 miles west of Surat in the Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay) in northwestern India.

In mid-January 2002, marine scientists in India announced they had sonar images of square and rectangular shapes about 130 feet down off the northwestern coast of India in the Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay). Noting sonar shapes with 90-degree angles, the Indian Minister of Science and Technology ordered that the site be dredged. What was found has surprised archaeologists around the world and was the subject of a private meeting attended by the Indian Minister in charge of investigating the underwater site about thirty miles off the coast from Surat.

An American who traveled to that private meeting was Michael Cremo, researcher in the history of archaeology for the Bhakti Vedanta Institute in India and author of the book Forbidden Archaeology. I talked with him in India about the dredging operation, what the ocean engineers found and the implications of first carbon dating of artifacts at more than 9,000 years.
Michael Cremo, Researcher of Ancient Archaeology and Author, Forbidden Archaeology: "Within the past few months, the engineers began some dredging operations there and they pulled up human fossil bones, fossil wood, stone tools, pieces of pottery and many other things that indicated that it indeed was a human habitation site that they had. And they were able to do more intensive sonar work there and were able to identify more structures. They appeared to have been laid out on the bank of a river that had been flowing from the Indian subcontinent out into that area.
L.M.H.: According to the news releases, they have done a radiocarbon testing on a piece of wood from the underwater site that is now yielding an age of 9,500 years which would place it near the end of the last Ice Age.
Yes, those are the indications that are coming. There were actually two radiocarbon dates: one about 7500 years old and another about 9500 years old. The 9500 year old one seems to be the strongest one. That's the one they are going with. This was announced by Minister Joshi (Murli Manohar Joshi is Indian Minister for Ocean Technology) at this meeting I attended in Hyderabad, India. He said there is going to be more work going on. It's difficult because it's very difficult to see down there. There is a very swift current. So, it's going to have to be a pretty massive effort, but he said the government of India is willing to put the resources behind it to do whatever it takes to further confirm these discoveries.
I also spoke in Hyderabad with an independent archaeologist not connected with the Indian government, but who has a deep interest in these discoveries and he says they are still going to have to send divers down there. Up to this point, they have not sent divers down. The information they have is based on the sonar readings and the dredging they have done. Eventually, they are going to have to find a way to get people down there to take a closer look at this. I think this effort is going to go on.
Now, another American archaeologist, Richard Meadows of Harvard University, is proposing there should be an international effort here. On the surface that sounds like a good idea, but it also may be an effort of American archaeologists and others to control the project. I don't think they want to see a civilization being as old as it appears to be according to these new finds at 9500 years ago. So, I would hope the Indian archaeologists and government would be very cautious about letting outsiders in there who might have a different agenda and who might try to control what gets let out about this very important discovery. It could be quite revolutionary.
Even if we don't know what the cultural background of the people is, if it does happen to be a city that is 9500 years old, that is older than the Sumerian civilization by several thousand years. It is older than the Egyptian, older than the Chinese. So it would radically affect our whole picture of the development of urban civilization on this planet.

Now, if it further happens that additional research is able to identify the culture of the people who lived in that city that's now underwater - if it turns out they are a Vedic people, which I think is quite probable given the location of this off the coast of India - I think that would radically change the whole picture of Indian history, which has basically been written by western archaeologists.

    

The most archaic Sanskrit (Devanagari) is that of the Vedas, multiple books written in thousandsof hymns and verses arranged in song cycles. The Vedas say that "God-men" brought Sanskrit to Earth men as a language of musical tones. Above on the left is a comparison of the numerals 1 through 10 in Devanagari Sanskrit compared to Arabic. On the right are some examples of Devanagari vowels and diphthongs. Sources: The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th Edition © 1993 and Sanskrit Keys to the Wisdom Religion © 1968 by Judith Tyberg.

 Ever since the 19th Century, there has been a huge debate about the actual history of India. When the Europeans first came there, they noticed that the people in India who had the Sanskrit language as the main language of their literature - they noticed that the European languages were similar (in word concepts), so that meant the Europeans and East Indians had to be related. The 19th Century scientists also noticed that the Sanskrit culture - or Vedic culture, as it is sometimes called after the ancient Indian literature, Vedas, which means knowledge; the literature is called the Vedic literature - so, the scientists noticed that it appeared to be older than the European cultures.
Since the European languages were related to the Sanskrit of the Vedas that could only mean that the European peoples had to have come out of India somehow and then gone to Europe with their languages that differentiated into Russian, English, Spanish, German and the rest of them. The European investigators didn't like that idea because it would have given the Vedic culture a position superior to their own. So, these early cities in the Indus Valley like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro have been identified by archaeologists such as Richard Meadows and others as being non-Vedic. They think the Vedic culture came into India maybe 3500 years ago.
L.M.H.: Isn't that inconsistent with the concept of the Vedas of the Krishna character who comes and says the universe is teeming with life and appears to have knowledge about other habitations in the cosmos and is talking from an age that would go back at least 9,500 years?
Oh, absolutely, Linda. In these ancient Sanskrit writings, there is no hint at all that the culture came from anywhere else.
L.M.H.: And if they are the prime source and if the Vedic literature can be taken literally, then it implies that there were cities there inhabited at least several thousand years ago.
Yes, and there has been other research going on in that area. For example, the Rig Veda, which is one of the earliest Vedic literatures, talks about a mighty river called the Saraswati that flowed from the Himalayan mountains down to the Arabian Sea, down in that area of northwestern India. And such a river doesn't exist there today. So, what happened is that people thought therefore the Rg Veda cannot be talking about India. It has to be talking about some other place outside of India where there was some kind of river.
But what happened that is quite interesting a few years ago is that archaeologists in India started studying the satellite photographs from American satellites like LANDSAT had been providing and they noticed there was a dry river channel that began up in the Himalayas, a huge river that went down almost to that Bay of Khambaht (Cambay) we are talking about (the location of the underwater city site). And then later, they found that on the banks of that river there were 800 to 1000 urban sites, archaeological sites.
So, it does appear that what the Rg Veda was talking about, a mighty river lined with cities in India over 5,000 years ago - that has to be true. The last time that river had water in it was over 5,000 years ago?
L.M.H.: Is there a possibility that there could have been some sort of non-human co-habitation on the continent of India let's say 50,000 years ago that could explain all of the Vedas?
Yes. In Kashmir, the valley of Kashmir, it appears it was many years ago a lake. Now, there is an ancient Sanskrit manuscript that tells of a lake that existed in that area, so that account is there in some ancient writings. Now, according to modern geological reporting, about 40,000 years ago Kashmir was indeed a lake in the valley of Kashmir in northern India. It was covered by a huge lake and it was blocked on the southern end by a little range of mountains. And at a certain point, something happened and it broke open and the lake drained out. That happened about 40,000 to 50,000 years ago. So, it is interesting that you've got this ancient historical record that talks about this lake. And if it is to be taken literally, then it means that somebody must have seen this lake as it existed 50,000 years ago and wrote about it."

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Harappan Civilization (ca. 3000 - 1500 B.C.)

Until the recent Bay of Khambaht discovery, one of the oldest advanced urban centers in India investigated by archaeologists is Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in present day Pakistan along the Indus River. Will anything in the Bay of Khambaht discovery resemble the structures of the very ancient and mysterious Harappan Civilization?

Harappa archaeology dig in Indus River valley showing heights and depths of structures, many built on mounds 3500 years ago. Source: North Park University, Chicago, Illinois.

Excavated walls of a Harappan urban city, one of the most mysterious cultures of the ancient Indian world more than 3,000 years ago. The people were literate and used the Dravidian Sanskrit language, only part of which has been deciphered today. The artifacts from Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus Valley of Pakistan are extraordinary in beauty and detail.
Source: North Park University, Chicago, Illinois.

Some Details from Harappan Urban Sites:

Mysterious white rings made of brick dot the landscape where Harappan people lived, but archaeologists do not know the function. One guess is platforms for spreading and drying of grains.
Source: North Park University, Chicago, Illinois.

The first objects unearthed from Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were small stone seals inscribed with elegant depictions of animals, including a unicorn-like figure
in upper left, and marked with Indus script writing which still baffles scholars.
These seals are dated back to 2500 B. C. Source: North Park University, Chicago, Illinois.

This seal is a close-up of the unicorn-like animal found in Mohenjo-daro, measures 29mm (1.14 inches) on each side and is made of heated Steatite.
"Steatite is an easily carved soft stone that becomes hard after firing. On the top are four pictographs of an as yet undeciphered Indus script, one of the first writing systems in history." Image sourceDept. of Archaeology and Museums, Govt. of Pakistan.

Book: Forbidden Archaeology by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson
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Indian Tribes Dig In to Fight Uranium Mine

Indian Tribes Dig In to Fight Uranium Mine

Wise Elders Tell Miners to Go Jump!

By Subir Bhaumik BBC correspondent in Meghalaya

For more than a decade, India has been unable to mine high-quality uranium deposits in the north-eastern state of Meghalaya. 

Khasis say radiation hazards in Jharkhand state could be repeated

Fierce resistance by Khasi tribes people has all but scuttled a $100m project drawn up by the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL). 

The tribes people fear radiation could damage their health. 

One senior UCIL official said: "Every time we turn up at the uranium mines, the tribes people chase us with bows and arrows and swords. 

"They call us the agents of death and threaten to kill us if we try to mine uranium." 

Our people cannot suffer because India wants our uranium... It is our people first and India comes after that - Paul Lyngdoh, former Khasi student leader

UCIL, the only state-owned company authorised to mine uranium in India, believes that once mining starts in the West Khasi Hills region, there will be huge development, particularly in infrastructure.
"But the local tribes people are adamant and determined to stop us," the official said.

Reserves

In 1984, India's Atomic Minerals Division found huge uranium oxide deposits at Domiosiat and then at Wakhyn, both in the West Khasi Hills, not far from the state's border with Bangladesh. 

In 1992, the division completed its investigation and presented a final assessment of the deposit. 

That was when the mining operations were supposed to commence - but never quite did.
The division's regional director in Meghalaya, B Huda, told the BBC the Domiosiat deposit was around 9,500 tonnes while that at Wakhyn was about 4,000 tonnes. 

"At present levels, Meghalaya accounts for 16% of India's uranium reserves," Mr Huda said. 

He says the quality of the uranium ore at Domiosiat and Wakhyn is much better than at India's other uranium mining area - in Jadugoda in the northern state of Jharkhand. 

He says the recovery percentage at Jadugoda is 0.02 to 0.06, while the percentage is as high as 0.1 in Domiosiat. 

There could even be more uranium in Meghalaya but the Atomic Minerals Division is no longer digging. 

"If we cannot mine what we have found, which is a lot of uranium, why should we sink more money to explore?" Mr Huda asked. 

Land battles

In Meghalaya, like in many other tribal societies of north-east India, land ownership is communal, not individual, and no villager enjoys property rights on land.

Children play at Domiosiat - prized by experts for the quality of its ore

Moreover, the state government does not have the power to acquire land. 

That is vested in the autonomous district councils that Delhi has created for the tribes people to protect their land rights, customs and way of life. 

UCIL officials say they have been "running from pillar to post" between the Khasi district council and the Meghalaya state government. 

Three years ago, the state government said it had in principle given the green light to uranium mining in the Domiosiat-Wakhyn area.
But when UCIL started moving earth-cutting equipment into the area, Khasi district council officials rushed in to protest. 

The council says it owns the land and the state government - or the federal authorities - cannot acquire it. 

Now the district council has granted permission for UCIL to "conduct exploratory surveys" but not to undertake commercial mining. 

"That does not help us. We are where we were," says the UCIL official. 

Priorities

Khasi politicians and students who oppose uranium mining have raised environmental concerns not easy to brush away.

Agencies have stopped exploration as they cannot exploit deposits

Student leader Sounder Cajees says: "Look at Jadugoda. It has been in the press about how the tribes people there have suffered from radiation hazards, how callous UCIL has been in disposing of uranium waste and how it has seeped into the local groundwater system and the crop chain." 

The former president of the Khasi Students Union, Paul Lyngdoh, says: "Our people cannot suffer because India wants our uranium for making nuclear bombs and missiles. For us, it is our people first and India comes after that." 

However, Khasi nuclear physicist, Mary Jwyra, says the tribal leaders are overreacting. 

"If done scientifically, and if all care is taken for proper waste disposal, there will be no threat to the environment or the local people," she says. [There is, of course, NO KNOWN METHOD for ‘PROPER’ WASTE DISPOSAL - See http://newilluminati.blog-city.com/nuclear_waste_containers_will_not_work_say_scientists.htm and http://newilluminati.blog-city.com/index.cfm?search=nuclear - Ed]

At the moment, no politician in Meghalaya is prepared to back a commencement of mining, although some admit that allowing it would be good for the economy. 

"Our royalty would be substantial and the growth of infrastructure in the West Khasi Hills would be a boon," said BB Dutta, a former economist turned politician. 

But the fear of radiation, and of falling prey to diseases caused by it, still haunts the Khasis. 

Until that is taken care of, mining uranium in their hills will not be easy.

From BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3000991.stm

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