Unseen : the truth about India's manual scavenger
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TextPublication details: New Delhi Penguin 2012Description: xxxviii, 282 p. illustrations, mapsISBN: 9780143420385Uniform titles: Adr̥śya Bhārata. Subject(s): Manual scavengers | Women cleaning personnelDDC classification: 363.7280954 Summary:
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In many parts of the country, the inhuman practice of manual scavenging continues to thrive in spite of a law banning it. Moreover, the people forced to carry out this degrading work remain invisible to the rest of us, pushed to the margins of society without any recourse to help or hope. Now, for the first time, award-winning journalist Bhasha Singh turns the spotlight on this ignored community. In Unseen, based on over a decade of research, she unveils the horrific plight of manual scavengers across eleven states in the country while also recording their ongoing struggle for self-empowerment. Previously published in Hindi to both critical and commercial success, this is an explosive work of reportage on a burning issue.
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| 363.728 4 JER/I Industrial wastewater treatment | 363.728 ENV Environmental movements and waste infrastructure | 363.728 KHA/W Waste products and pollution | 363.7280954 BHA/U Unseen : the truth about India's manual scavenger | 363.73 BIR/E Environmental pollution and health | 363.73 HEL/S Statistics for censored environmental data using Minitab and R | 363.73 JOH/E Environmental pollution |
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In many parts of the country, the inhuman practice of manual scavenging continues to thrive in spite of a law banning it. Moreover, the people forced to carry out this degrading work remain invisible to the rest of us, pushed to the margins of society without any recourse to help or hope. Now, for the first time, award-winning journalist Bhasha Singh turns the spotlight on this ignored community. In Unseen, based on over a decade of research, she unveils the horrific plight of manual scavengers across eleven states in the country while also recording their ongoing struggle for self-empowerment. Previously published in Hindi to both critical and commercial success, this is an explosive work of reportage on a burning issue.
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