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The Surgical Scars of Capital: How Maharashtra's Sugar Industry Carves Profit from Women's Bodies

Women sugarcane workers in Maharashtra are undergoing medically unnecessary hysterectomies at rates far exceeding India's national average due to a labor system that penalizes menstruation and pregnancy. This brutal exploitation represents capitalism's most grotesque assault on the bodies of the most vulnerable, where corporate greed literally carves its profit margins into the uteruses of Dalit and Adivasi women.