Where India goes : abandoned toilets, stunted development and the costs of caste / Diane Coffey and Dean Spears.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh ; New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2017.

xiii, 271 pages : graphs ; 22 cm

Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences.

Foreword / by Angus Deaton -- Introduction -- Causes. -- The puzzle : why rural India? -- Purity, pollution and untouchability -- Latrine pits and slow social change -- Consequences. -- Health : surviving and growing in childhood -- Economics : children's human capital, adults' wages -- Dignity : the people who want latrines -- Responses. -- Policy : politics, development and latrine construction -- Conclusion : the next rural sanitation policy.

Includes bibliographical references in "Notes" (pages 239-268).