India is already rife with labour rights abuses. Bonded labour, recognised as a form of slavery under both Indian and international law, affects millions, perhaps most notoriously in agriculture and brick production. Child labour and slavery remain a pernicious problem. Other forms of forced and child labour have recently emerged in export-oriented industries: the child labour found in the manufacture of sporting goods in Punjab would become legal under the proposed “reforms”; forced labour of girls and young women, notably in the spinning mills of Tamil Nadu, forms part of the supply chains that provide cheap clothes to northern hemisphere high streets.