The Working Children of India

First Online: November 14, 2002
Page Last Updated: August 20, 2024
All Photographs by K. L. Kamat

Supportive Kids - Table of Contents

• Helping Hands -- An introduction to the problem of child labor in India by Jyotsna Kamat, Discusses common jobs, mistreatment, and causes of child-labor.
• Child Labor in India - Some notes by Vikas Kamat

• Boy Climbing a Tall Coconut Tree
• Boy Selling Curry Leaves
• Boys Selling Oil Lamps for Deepavali
• A Child Caring for an Infant
• A Child Doing a Man's Job
• Girl Doing a Man's Job
• Girl Fetching Water for Household Use
• Girl Making Garlands for Sale
• Girl on Way to Fetch Water
• Girl Selling Flowers
• Girl Shining the Vessels
• Girl with Firewood
• In The Family Business
• Learning Tricks of the Trade
• Roadside Pakora Vendor
• Running Errands
• "Take a Peacock Fan Home today"
• A Young Tangawala with his Horse

See Also:

• The Children of India - Photo Exhibition
• Children of Asphalt -- Population experts are worried about the children of India. Not them! Pictures of happy children growing up on the streets of India.