Contents Acknowledgements 7 INTRODUCTION In The Shadow of Covid-19 Harsh Mander 13 IN FOCUS Public Health and Health Services as Global Public Goods T. Sundararaman, Daksha Parmar and S. Krithi 57 VULNERABLE GROUPS From Fibre to Fabric: Everyday Confrontations with Disaster, Danger and Death by Odia Loom Workers in Surat City Reetika Revathy Subramanian, Sanjay Patel 79 Paradoxes of Ghettoization: Juhapura ‘in’ Ahmedabad 6KDULN/DOLZDOD&KULVWRSKH-DৼUHORW3UL\DO7KDNNDUand Abida Desai 103 The Grudging Inclusion of Sex Workers in India Mona Mishra, Sutapa Majumdar and Akhila Sivadas 137 Of Sewage, Struggle, and the State: Caste and Contractorization in Contemporary Sanitation Work Shruti I. 163 Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3718512