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This heart-wrenching book on widows in contemporary India delves into multiple forms of material and emotional deprivation including a most oppressive kind of renunciation forced on the widows living in Varanasi and Vrindavan. Seeing the things from the suffering women’s perspective, it questions the exclusivity of their renunciatory life prescribed by the Hindu Dharmashastras. Among other things, this work argues powerfully that the widows need a measure ...
Sulabh International Centre for Action Sociology in close collaboration with Sulabh International Social Service Organisation held the National Conference on ‘Sociology of Sanitation’ : Environmental Sanitation,Public Health and Social Deprivation at Mavalankar Hall, Rafi Marg New Delhi, on January 28 & 29, 2013, (Monday & Tuesday). This was a preliminary conference to do brainstorming on the significant issues of sanitation – ...
This book attempts to address the various issues concerning bad sanitation conditions in India. Highlighting the shocking state of affairs with respect to toilets in India, especially for women and girls and those living in slums, it presents first-hand experience about how sanitation can best be built into city planning and made it central to good living.
Focusing on sustainability of toilets and sanitation, it describes in detail the management options and ...
This book is the result of twenty years of study, research and field work by the author who is a Gandhian with long years in social service. It is a seminal piece of work on scavenging which extensively discusses its sources, history and geographical spread. The social inequity of the system has always concerned Dr. Bibdeshwar Pathak who joined Gandhiji’s movement for the liberation of scavengers soon after his education. He suggests solutions based on his ...