WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE

WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE

Women who have been cleaning human excreta for centuries are now waking up to the realization that manual scavenging is illegal and banned in the country. Thousands of them are rising in rebellion against the caste system that allowed them no other occupation but this one.

 

Chhotibai: The discrimination against us was so rampant, that even our children suffered. They would come home and tell me how other children would neither eat, share water nor play with them. The local restaurants in the Chittorh district where I come from would not even give us tea. Local barbers would refuse to cut the hair of people from my community. Then we decided that enough is enough and stormed these local establishments. Now they dare not refuse us anything.

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