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  • Children are employed in a gravel quarry in northeast India.
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  • Girls on their way to school in the rain in Shankarpur, a village in India's Assam region.
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  • Cakes of dried cow dung stuck on a wall to dry in Varanasi, India. The cakes are made from cow dung and hay mixed together, and will serve as fuel for home cooking stoves.
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  • Thousands of widows abandoned by their families arrive every year in Vrindavan, India, where they live in Hindu temples until they die.
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  • A girl at work in a gravel quarry in northeast India. Child labor is a problem throughout India and many other developing countries.
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  • A woman in Hyderabad, India, shows her savings passbook. She and other women participate in a self-help group where they save their money and then loan it out to each other at terms they designate.
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  • A man carries vegetables in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A 2004 photo of Jagrupani Devi and her well, which had run dry since Coca-Cola established a bottling plant near her farm home in Mehdiganj, outside Varanasi. In 2014, local authorities ordered the plant closed.
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  • A Hindu pilgrim walks alongside the Ganges River at Varanasi.
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  • Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • Boats on the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • Indian man worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • A wedding party crosses the Ganges River to celebrate a wedding on the shores of the sacred river near Varanasi.
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  • A Hindu monk at Varanasi
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  • Women, mostly illiterate, are key leaders of the disaster management team in Dhararghat, a village located near the Brahmaputra River in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Church-based groups have worked with residents here to survive the ravages of flooding, build roads and schools, and to form a DMT to help the community learn to live with worsening flooding. The teams are often the first opportunity for the village's women to participate in organized community life, and the groups have taken on other issues--such as domestic violence--that affect the daily life of the village's families.
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  • Women, mostly illiterate, are key leaders of the disaster management team in Dhararghat, a village located near the Brahmaputra River in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Church-based groups have worked with residents here to survive the ravages of flooding, build roads and schools, and to form a DMT to help the community learn to live with worsening flooding. The teams are often the first opportunity for the village's women to participate in organized community life, and the groups have taken on other issues--such as domestic violence--that affect the daily life of the village's families.
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  • Indian women work building a highway in the northeastern state of Assam. Women, particularly women of low castes, are often employed at low wages in such dirty jobs.
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  • Two women in the village of Gobindapurchal, in the Indian state of Assam.
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  • A woman in the village of Gobindapurchal, in the Indian state of Assam.
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  • Women consider the wares in a bangle store in Hyderabad, India.
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  • Feet of a woman in Hyderabad, India.
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  • A man pushes his cart of fruit that he sells on the streets of Bangalore, India.
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  • A Dalit woman works carrying construction materials at a building site in Bangalore. Members of this low caste, the so-called "untouchables," are the ones who do the dirty work in Indian society.
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  • On a street in Bangalore, an advertisement for a marriage broker. Most marriages in India are still arranged by the parents of the bride and groom.
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  • A woman carries dirt on a construction site.
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  • A woman carries water along a dirt street in India.
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  • A man has a tilaka on his forehead in the seaside village of Ennore, Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • A woman and girl walk through the seaside village of Ennore, Tamil Nadu, India, early in the morning.
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  • A fishmonger sells his product on a street in Chennai, India.
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  • A woman carries a bucket on her head in the Moolakothanam slum area of Chennai, India.
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  • A family rides a motorcycle in the Moolakothanam slum area of Chennai, India.
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  • A man shaves in his home in the Moolakothanam slum area of Chennai, India.
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  • Thousands of widows abandoned by their families arrive every year in Vrindavan, India, where they live in Hindu temples until they die.
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  • The Sri Krishna Balrama Temple in Vrindavan, India, was constructed by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in 1975.
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  • Thousands of widows abandoned by their families arrive every year in Vrindavan, India, where they live in Hindu temples until they die.
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  • A food vender in Vrindavan, India.
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  • A man in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A man in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A man in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A Dalit woman sweeps the streets of Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A man in Vrindavan, India, bears a tilaka on his face.
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  • A girl in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A man carries vegetables in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • Men play cricket in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A girl carries cauliflower in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A woman in Mursan in northern India.
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  • A boy carries cauliflower in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A boy sells vegetables in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A woman in Mursan in northern India.
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  • A woman in Mursan in northern India.
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  • A man in Mursan in northern India.
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  • A woman in Mursan in northern India.
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  • A woman in Mursan in northern India.
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  • A tailor works along a street in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A Dalit woman street sweeper in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A man sits in the door of his shop along a street in Mursan, a small town in northern India.
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  • A woman in Mursan in northern India.
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  • A street in Mursan, India.
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  • A man in Mursan in northern India.
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  • Hindu women in Mursan in northern India.
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  • A Hindu woman in Mursan in northern India.
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  • A girl in Mursan, India, picks through used batteries and other electronic waste in search of recyclable material.
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  • A girl in Mursan, India, picks through used batteries and other electronic waste in search of recyclable material.
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  • A girl in Mursan, India, picks through used batteries and other electronic waste in search of recyclable material.
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  • A woman and girl in Mursan, India, pick through used batteries and other electronic waste in search of recyclable material.
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  • Vegetables in the market in Mursan, India.
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  • A woman in Mursan, India.
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  • A man in Mursan, India.
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  • Boys sew a carpet in Mursan, India.
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  • An Indian woman receives gifts from family and friends at her wedding. The practice of dowry, where the bride's family pays the groom's family with money and objects, has grown in India, contributing to violence against many women whose family cannot keep transferring wealth.
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  • A woman pushes a cart in Varanasi, India.
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  • A woman in Mehdiganj, India.
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  • A woman in Mehdiganj, India.
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  • A woman in Mehdiganj, India.
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  • A man prays on a busy street in Varanasi, India.
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  • An Indian woman at her wedding in Lucknow. The practice of dowry, where the bride's family pays the groom's family with money and objects, has grown in India, contributing to violence against many women whose family cannot keep transferring wealth.
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  • An Indian woman at her wedding in Lucknow. The practice of dowry, where the bride's family pays the groom's family with money and objects, has grown in India, contributing to violence against many women whose family cannot keep transferring wealth.
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  • An Indian woman at her wedding in Lucknow. The practice of dowry, where the bride's family pays the groom's family with money and objects, has grown in India, contributing to violence against many women whose family cannot keep transferring wealth.
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  • An Indian woman at her wedding in Lucknow. The practice of dowry, where the bride's family pays the groom's family with money and objects, has grown in India, contributing to violence against many women whose family cannot keep transferring wealth.
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  • An Indian woman enters the venue for her wedding in Lucknow. The practice of dowry, where the bride's family pays the groom's family with money and objects, has grown in India, contributing to violence against many women whose family cannot keep transferring wealth.
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  • An Indian couple watches dancers at her wedding in Lucknow. The practice of dowry, where the bride's family pays the groom's family with money and objects, has grown in India, contributing to violence against many women whose family cannot keep transferring wealth.
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  • Women students at Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow, India, enjoy a school dance.
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  • A man in Mehdiganj, India.
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  • A man peddles a heavily-laden bicycle cart in Mehdiganj, India.
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  • Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • An Indian man worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • Indians worship alongside the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • An Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • An Indian woman scoops water as she worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • An Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • An Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • An Indian woman worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • Indians worship in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • Indian man worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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  • An Indian man worships in the Ganges River at Varanasi, a sacred site for Hindus.
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