4. Able-bodied adult beggars
📌 Involves both men and women.
📌Unemployment and under-
Employment are the major
Causative factors.
📌 People under this category exhibit
Lazy tendency.
📌 Psychologically they are literally
tempted to do this work.
5. Able-bodied child beggars
Involves the following category of
Beggars:
📌 children whose parents are
Incapable of earning.
📌children who are forced
By their parents to beg, due to
Certain family disorganisations.
📌children whose are left under
The control of heartless
orphanages. (Illegally).
6. Sick/diseased beggars
These people are affected with
Incurable and untreatable diseases.
Examples:
▪Leprosy
▪Venereal diseases
As These diseases are spreadful
in Nature, the ones categorised
Under this category are hesitated
By the society eventually.
7. These people consider begging as
Their hereditary profession.
Example:
▪jugglers
▪Nats
▪Kanjars
They follow a nomadic life.
(Place to place)
Hereditary beggars
8. Physically challenged beggars
This category includes people with
Physical disabilities/ malfunctionings.
The following groups of
People are categorized under
This type:
▪ Blind
▪ Deaf
▪ Crippled.
9. Mentally retarded beggars
This type includes people with
Psychological illness or psychic
Oriented issues.
Caution: People under this
Category are to be kept under
Observation.
10. Religious mendicants
A mendicant (from Latin:
mendicans, "begging") is one who
practices mendicancy, relying
chiefly or exclusively on alms to
survive.
Example : Buddhist Monks.
11. Causes for Beggary
▶ Biological causes
▶ Economical causes
▶ Religious causes
▶ Calamitic causes
▶ Social causes
🧠❗ Mnemonic : BERCS