Social Work Practice and Beggary Dr. Singh Kirti Vikram Assistant Regional Director, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, Email: dr.kirtivikramsingh@gmail.com Online published on 13 June, 2019. Abstract Beggary is an act of appealing for material help by words or gestures, committed by a person either in group or on individual basis for maintenance of himself or his dependents on roads, door to door basis, place of business etc. Begging is to entreat earnestly, implore, or supplicate. It often occurs for the purpose of securing a material benefit, generally for a gift, donation or charitable donation. When done in the context of a public place, it is known as "panhandling", perhaps because the hand and arm are extended like the handle of a cooking implement, and not infrequently, a kitchen implement such as a pot or cup may be used. Beggary had respectable beginning in the ‘Sanyasi' who had renounced the world in the quest of spiritual truth. A visit of the holy man, clad in saffron, was big occasion and spoke of good fortune on its way. Manu had said, ‘the king should always give gifts and other kind of charities to a learned Brahmin, to one who is affected by disease or affliction, to one who is young(orphan), to him who is very old and also to him who is born in a noble family. Top Keywords Beggary, helpless women, Manu, Kautilya, India. Top |