- List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables*
- Preface
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1. Time and Place
- 2. Growth and Garbage
- 3. Sewage and Society
- 4. Recycling and Value
- 5. Technology and Imperfection
- 6. Local Governments and Limitations
- 7. Occupations and Possibilities
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Maps, Illustrations, and Tables
- Maps
- I.1 India
- 1.1 Mumbai
- 3.1 India: rivers and annual rainfall
- 6.1 National Capital Territory of Delhi
- Illustrations
- I.1 Prime Minister Modi launches the Swachh Bharat campaign in Valmiki Basti, New Delhi, October 2, 2014
- I.2 Gandhi’s spectacles peer down on a householder dumping kitchen scraps
- 1.1 Landfill at Belgachia, Howrah, West Bengal
- 1.2 Sewer diving in Varanasi
- 2.1 Population of India, 1901–2011
- 2.2 Growth in each decade: urban and rural population, 1951–2011
- 2.3 Brushing with daatuun, a neem twig, on the ghats in Varanasi
- 2.4 Selling daatuun
- 2.5 Registered motor vehicles, 1951–2011
- 3.1 Urban households connected to sewerage, 2011
- 4.1 Weighing in at a kabaadi shop in Varanasi
- 4.2 Helping the family by collecting recyclables in Varanasi
- 4.3 Woman on her way to a kabaadi in Pune
- 4.4 Ships beached for destruction at Alang, Gujarat
- 4.5 Separating strands of hair from a street collection in Varanasi
- 4.6 Weighing and bagging by waste-hair kabaadi in Varanasi
- 4.7 Processing long, black waste hair in New Delhi
- 4.8 Plastic and metal waste in Dharavi, Mumbai
- 7.1 Roofed processing center for separating dry and wet waste and making compost and refuse-derived fuel in Thippenahalli, Bengaluru
- 7.2 Extracting compost, refuse-derived fuel, plastic, metal, and paper from a neglected dumping ground in Raichur, Karnataka
- 7.3 A waste-picker collects recyclables at an open dump in Thiruvananthapuram
- 7.4 People and pigs search the Belgachia dump in Howrah
- 7.5 Uniformed workers with a sorted load in Pune
- 7.6 Kabaadi presides over payments and acquisitions in Pune
- Tables
- I.1 Television and refrigerator households, 1996 and 2015
- 2.1 Population growth, 1901–2011
- 2.2 Rural and urban population growth, 1951–2011
- 2.3 Population below the poverty line, 2004–2005 to 2011–2012
- 2.4 Registered motor vehicles, 1951–2011
- 2.5 Estimates of annual urban waste generation in India
- 2.6 Population densities of selected countries, 2017
- 3.1 Urban households connected to sewerage, 2011
- 3.2 Urban households not connected to sewerage, 2011
- Maps
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