India Stinking: Manual Scavengers in Andhra Pradesh and their Work Rs 100, USD 10 ISBN 81-89059-06-8 xx + 108 pages (including color pictures) Navayana Publishing
In Lothal, 62 km from Ahmedabad, people had water-borne toilets in each house. That was in 2,500 BCE. In 2005 AD, India employs 6.76 lakh manual scavengers in 96 lakh dry latrines. Every day, they dispose shit. This shame of India owes to indifference and silence. Yours, mine. Manual scavenging was constitutionally banned in 1993, and yet persists with active state support. In Andhra Pradesh, home to over two lakh dry latrines, the Safai Karamchari Andolan led by Bezwada Wilson launched a demolition drive in 2004. Safai karamcharis went around demolishing the foundations of their indignity. Moving beyond the framework of 'rehabiliation', 'amelioration', and gandhian efforts to bestow 'nobility' on the profession, the ska demands nothing short of abolition of dry toilets. A single dry toilet anywhere in India will instantly create a cast of manual scavengers. This book documents the efforts of the ska and offers a historical understanding of the problem of manual scavenging. It also calls for immediate action against the shit around us. The safai karamcharis do it because they are forced to, but we tolerate and encourage manual scavenging because we are lesser human beings. ================== CONTENTS Foreword vi Preface x 1. Manual Scavenging 1 2. Who are the Scavengers? 3 3. Practice and Prevalence: A Historical Overview 5 4. Scavenging and Caste 14 5. What has been Done to Stop Scavenging? 21 6. How Widespread is Manual Scavenging Today? 30 7. Bezwada Wilson: Shepherd of the Manual Scavengers 41 8. Safai Karamchari Andolan 49 9. The Struggle for Self-Respect 54 10. A Community in Transition 65 11. What You Can Do 68 Appendix 1: Organisations to help initiate action against manual scavenging 71 Appendix 2: Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 73 Appendix 3: District-wise breakup of community dry latrines in Andhra Pradesh 84 Appendix 4: Mohandas Gandhi on Scavenging 86 Appendix 5: B.R. Ambedkar on Scavenging 96 Select Bibliography 107 ========= Navayana Publishing 54, Ist Floor Savarirayalu Street Pondicherry 605001 Ph: 0413-2223337 Cell: 91-94440-61256 www.navayana.org ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/1dTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥««¤»¥«¤»§«¤» This is ZESTCaste whose members watch India's painful journey to society's de-casteisation. Members are encouraged to post messages to ZESTCaste@yahoogroups.com If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join ==theZESTcommunity====================================== [1] ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCurrent/ [2] ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTEconomics/ [3] ZESTGlobal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ [4] ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ [5] ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ [6] ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ [7] ZESTAlternative: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTAlternative/ [8] TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkZEST/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
