Women planting onions and transporting water in rural Rajasthan. (Candace Feit for The Globe and Mail)
Women planting onions and transporting water in rural Rajasthan, India. (Candace Feit/Candace Feit for The Globe and Mail)
Women work on an NREGA project digging a sewer in rural Rajasthan. (Candace Feit/Candace Feit for The Globe and Mail)
School children in Hopardi village in rural Rajasthan. (Candace Feit/Candace Feit for The Globe and Mail)
Girls in class at GUSHP school - "Government Upper Girls' School Hopardi Primary" in the village of Hopardi, Rajasthan. The girls school was built by Damyanti Paliwal who was sarpanj from 2005 to 2009. (Candace Feit/Candace Feit for The Globe and Mail)
Girls in class at GUSHP school - "Government Upper Girls' School Hopardi Primary" in the village of Hopardi, Rajasthan. (Candace Feit/Candace Feit for The Globe and Mail)
Damyanti Paliwal who was sarpanj of Hopardi village from 2005 to 2009 and built a girls school and health center during her time. (Candace Feit/Candace Feit for The Globe and Mail)
Rajendra Kawar, a woman who was raised in purdah. She served from 2001 to 2005 on block council, and as sarpanj of her village from 2005 to 2009. (Candace Feit/Candace Feit for The Globe and Mail)
Mumal Barupal, sarpanj of Mogara Kala from 2005 to 2009. She won a general election seat and had to sit on floor with face covered at first during meetings. (Candace Feit/Candace Feit for The Globe and Mail)
Jamana Patel, current sarpanj of Mogara Kala village in Rajasthan. She is a Dalit illiterate woman. (Candace Feit/Candace Feit for The Globe and Mail)
A young girl carries her sister in rural Rajasthan. (Candace Feit/Candace Feit for The Globe and Mail)