Tom Turdriffic says:

This is a collection of articles about the lowest rung of the society in India - the "Untouchables", and THEIR lowest category, the "banghis", or scavengers, whose job it is to carry away the "night soil" of the upper classes.
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Out of a virtually dormant crusade to free night-soil scavengers from their demeaning labor has come a successful voluntary enterprise that is installing flush latrines in India, cleaning up and deodorizing city streets and providing employment and training for hundreds and potentially thousands.

The organization, called the Easy Toilet Society, was founded 10 years ago by Bindeshwar Pathak, when a 28-year-old sociology student who had grown disenchanted with the inactivity of governmental mencies and fellow members of Gandhian associations.

He gathered a group of designers and engineers and gained the organizing skills of R.L. Das, 28-year-old reformer who had spent most of his life as a propagator of Gandhian ideas, much of it in he so-called Liberation of Scavengers Movement. In this drive Mohandas K. Gandhi sought to abolish the practice in which members of a hereditary undercaste of untouchable sweepers cleaned the toilets of their urban customers and dumped the waste in fields and canals.