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Endless Filth: The Saga of the Bhangis
Mari Marcel Thekaekara
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Description for Endless Filth: The Saga of the Bhangis
paperback. A searing indictment of India's failure over the past 100 years to deal with the transportation of human excrement. Num Pages: 140 pages, photographs, list, map, glossary. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFC; JFFJ; JFS; TQSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 211 x 8. Weight in Grams: 188.
"In the rainy season it is really bad. Water mixes with the shit and when we carry it on our heads, it drips from the basket onto our clothes, our bodies, our faces. When I return home, I find it difficult to eat food sometimes. The smell never gets out of my clothes, my hair. But then in summer there is often no water to wash your hands before eating. It is difficult to say which is worse." This is a telling investigation and indictment of India‘s lack of resolve over the past 100 years to get rid of ... Read more
"In the rainy season it is really bad. Water mixes with the shit and when we carry it on our heads, it drips from the basket onto our clothes, our bodies, our faces. When I return home, I find it difficult to eat food sometimes. The smell never gets out of my clothes, my hair. But then in summer there is often no water to wash your hands before eating. It is difficult to say which is worse." This is a telling investigation and indictment of India‘s lack of resolve over the past 100 years to get rid of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Zed Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842772676
SKU
V9781842772676
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About Mari Marcel Thekaekara
Mari Marcel Thekaekara is an independent writer, and the Co- Founder of ACCORD, an organisation working for the adivasis of the Gudalur Valley, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India.
Reviews for Endless Filth: The Saga of the Bhangis
'Deserves notice in an academic publication both for the social challenges that it raises and for the implicit questions about caste, community, identity and reform that it provokes...a readable, relevant and necessary voice for change about a seemingly intractable malaise.' - Journal of Asian Studies