Manual Scavenging in India: The Banality of An Everyday Crime

Manual scavenging is the practice of ‘manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or pit’, and its existence is a crime of genocidal proportions. The vast majority of people forced into this degrading occupation are wom...

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Main Authors: Shiva Shankar, Kanthi Swaroop
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brandeis University Library 2021-05-01
Series:Caste
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Online Access:https://journals.library.brandeis.edu/index.php/caste/article/view/299