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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Beasts of burden
  name:
    name part: Ampersand Film & Video Tape Productions
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Documentary.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (52 min.)
  abstract: India's cities are thronged with faceless rickshaw workers. This film puts a human face on those at the low end of the caste system whose only chance to eke out a bare subsistence for their families is to do the work done by beasts of burden in more affluent societies. The film follows Jadav as he leaves his drought-ridden village without luggage or money. Arriving in Calcutta, he finds people living in the train station and the streets. Although he feels humiliated to apply for the job as rickshaw puller, he sees no alternative. He meets men who have been pulling enormous loads for twenty years, who have developed lung problems and impaired vision. Other men sell their blood, often tainted, in order to feed their families. People even buy and sell the cadavers of those who died in the streets because there is a market for human bones. Despite the misery he encounters, Jadav dreams that life will be better for his children, and that, hopefully, his next life will be better!.
  target audience: For College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: by Ampersand Productions.
  note: Originally released as DVD.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
  note: Slide.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Poverty
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Rickshaw men
    geographic: India
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Employment
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20260324205530.0
    record identifier: in00003745422