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The Battle of Palder 22
In the eighties, medetes to lat eighties, and we were working in the southwest costin another significant battle happened with the support of nijala kori. They'd been helping mobilize workers on a dam project when a well connected man who was known for his use of brutal force came to take over a piece of land. The protest march against his attempt to take over the small area known as palder 22 is not only seared in the memory of locals who lived through it, but has been passed into folk lore by successive generations. Two women who were there that day take up the story. Rup ban bibby and ulmila ardar, both aged
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