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May 19, 2004
Laundry Yard, Delhi, India, 2002Photograph by William Albert Allard "Her fate scripted by Hindu law, an Untouchable girl can imagine little else than working along the Yamuna River in Delhi as a Dhobi. Members of this clothes-washing caste handle items 'polluted' by blood or human waste." —From "India's Untouchables," June 2003, National Geographic magazine
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