“Who will I teach? They all tell me, ‘Who will do this hellish work? It is dirty and I feel disgusted,’” Moohiya Devi explains to me as I sit outside her family’s small kaccha house with a thatched roof, “They can’t tolerate the blood and the mess.” She’s a 60-something-year-old woman, a native of the village of Sarari, in Jamui, Bihar. Moohiya Devi, a Manjhi (scheduled caste), has been a dai for...
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