| ID | 026749 |
| Call Number | 954.792/ROY |
| Title Proper | Castaway mountain: love and loss among the wastepickers of Mumbai |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Roy, Saumya |
| Publication | New York, Astra house, 2021. |
| Description | xii, 260p Cream spine |
| Note | All of Mumbai's possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountain. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountain is covered in a faint mist, smog, or smoke from trash fires and flanked by a creek that runs out the Arabian Sea. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knockoffs, fast food, and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and ragpickers came to live at the mountain's edge, making a living by reusing, recycling, and reselling. |
| Standard Number | 9781662600951 |
| Price. Qualification | $28(Hb) |
| Classification Number | 954.792 |
| Key Words | Human ecology ; Refuse and refuse disposal ; India - Maharashtra - Mumbai ; Economic history ; IBDP ; Sanitary landfills ; Human ecology - India ; Slums - India - Mumbai ; Plastic scrap ; Marginality, Social ; Mumbai (India) - Economic conditions - 21th century ; Mumbai (India) - Social conditions - 21th century ; Ragpickers - Economic conditions ; Ragpickers - Social conditions |