By Shrishtee Bajpai and Ashish Kothari In April 2013, the Supreme Court of India delivered a historic judgement recognizing the cultural, religious and spiritual rights of the Dongria Kondh Adivasis, an Indigenous community residing in the Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha state in eastern India. The community fighting against bauxite mining in their sacred landscape had articulated that “our way of life allied to the ‘sacred law,’ as prescribed by Niyamraja (King of Law, the deity presiding over the hills) disallows exploitation of the forest and the land.” The Niyamgiri judgement is one of those rar…