Lives in India's Lower Classes
Muslims from the Chowduli community come out of a mosque after Friday prayers in Chaymalpur village in West Bengal, India.
Members of the Chowduli community gather outside a tea shop in Chaymalpur.
Children and adults look for small fish in the muddy remains of a pond in Kuliadanga village.
A boy poses with the fish he caught.
Members of the Chowduli community work at a brick kiln in Abadmanpur village.
Laborers at the kiln.
A young man moistens the clay while a girl shapes bricks at his feet.
A woman from the Chowduli community makes bidis, a type of Indian cigarette, in her house in Chaymalpur village.
Siraj Gazi, right, is the first member of the Chowduli community who anyone in the area can remember getting a college degree. At left is his brother Sahajan Gazi, 18, and at center is his father, Jamshed Gazi, inside their house in Chaymalpur village.
Siraj Gazi inside his home.
Rafiq Gazi, 22, third from left, with his family in the courtyard of their house in Chaymalpur village.
Teenage boys from the Chowduli community work at a tailoring shop in Chaymalpur village.
A man gets a shave on a street in Kolkata.
A woman from the Devanga caste speaks to her son outside their house in Mahesh.
A young boy from the Devanga community bathes himself in a narrow lane in Mahesh.
Schoolgirls from the Devanga community attend class at Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Andhra High School in Mahesh.
A member of the Devanga community goes about daily chores.
Workers from the lowest Hindu group, Dalits, work at a leather waste processing unit in Bojerhat.
The workers toil through the day in hazardous working conditions, melting the waste leather and turning it into a fertilizer for tea plants.
Laborers who process the leather earn $3 per day for an 18-hour shift.
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