Scarcity of daily commodities, clothes pushed the common people of this region towards the endless miseries. The scarcity of clothes was such that many women of village were confined to their home and could not go out as they had no clothing to wear as the narrator tells us: "the grand-daughter of SairatunBibi-still unmarried but marriageable-is sitting naked at home," (123). ... The women passed their days sitting beside the hearths as they had nothing to cook and to feed their sons and daughters the sufferings of those mother is best illustrated by T.S Eliot in his Waste Land, a li...

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