https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/the-real-slumdog-story/story-qkV0JrZ0zqBvIjFNtNxTbO.html

"..Mafia Gangs Crippling Children For Profit describing how street children in India are deliberately crippled by gangs so they can earn extra money begging.

“We are aware that children are being forced to beg. There are children without legs and hands begging at railway stations in Mumbai,” said Santosh Shinde, executive director of child rights organisation Balprafulta in Andheri “I think it’s obvious that it is taking place.”..."

‘They Shall See His Face’: Blindness in British India, 1850–1950

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5426299/