"Sterilization became a condition not just for land allotments, but for irrigation water, electricity, ration cards, rickshaw licenses, medical care, pay raises, and promotions. Everyone, from senior government officials to train conductors to policemen, was given a sterilization quota. This created a nationwide market in which people bought and sold, sometimes more than once, the capacity to reproduce. Of course, for the very poorest, with no money and nothing else to sell, sterilization in such conditions was not really a choice. But some were themselves agents in the process—such as the men who made up the demolition teams, a low-status job that typically went to Dalits. They demolished one another's homes." Matthew Connelly