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100			_aDoron, Assa
100			_a; Jeffrey, Robin.
245			_aWaste of a nation _b: garbage and growth in India. _c/Assa Doron.
260			_a, Massachusetts _b: Harvard University Press, Cambridge _c, 2018.
300			_axv, 393 pages _b: illustrations, maps _c:24cm.
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505			_a Introduction Time and place Growth and garbage Sewage and society Recycling and value Technology and imperfection Local governments and limitations Occupations and possibilities Conclusion
520			_aWhy is India so filthy?" This book draws on four years of research by an anthropologist and historian to tease out reasons for India's public-sanitation agonies. From the days of Mahatma Gandhi to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has struggled with garbage and human excrement. In the twenty-first century, the problems grow urgent as an urbanizing middle class expands, consumes, excretes and throws things away at increasing rates. In 2014, the new Modi government began to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a Clean India! or Swachh Bharat! campaign to change habits, build toilets, purify water and tame domestic, industrial and medical waste. The authors argue that many of India's problems were shared by other countries over the past 150 years and that India can benefit from such experience and the science of the digital world. But two challenges are unique and formidable. First, the density of population is surpassed only by Bangladesh. India has less space in which to dump its huge volumes of waste than any major country in history, including China. The second obstacle lies in ideas and prejudices relating to caste. Some people are born into castes (once called "untouchables") that are still widely regarded as tainted by birth and associated with foul and demeaning tasks. Such attitudes reinforce NIMBY attitudes found throughout the world. India's diversity, however, means that throughout the country the efforts of women and men from waste-pickers to executives demonstrate exceptional achievements in dealing with waste, though they provide no single recipe for a Clean India.
650			_aCaste
650			_aPopulation
650			_aSewage disposal
650			_aRefuse and refuse disposal
650			_aSewage disposal
700			_aAssa Doron
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