Gonthar
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....were forcibly sterilized in 1976, in an attempt to control the population growth. Most of them were poor, homeless men who were picked from the streets or arrested for small stuff like begging or not having a train ticket and offered to choose between prison and sterilization.
qz.com
This happened in the period called "The Emergency" when civil liberties were suspended, very few people know about this today or care.
en.wikipedia.org
The legacy of India’s quest to sterilise millions of men
In 1976, men across India were drastically changing their behaviour. Some were abandoning the beds inside their homes to sleep in fields; others were skipping major festivals and public gatherings. Those who in the past had taken the train freely, without a ticket, were finding alternative...