1. The Indian Woman in Kamala Markandaya
Only after the children are raised and married off does a woman begin to enjoy the fruits of love " from the children, now parents themselves, who gratefully realize what she gave them, and from a husband whose years if not his attitudes force him into co-dependence as his body gets frail and tired. ... At an early age, Rukmani is married off at the age of twelve with a poor tenant farmer because of the lack of dowry. ...
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