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hill women's life is extremely busy from early morning to late evening and sometimes even till late at night.
They work side by side with men in agriculture and their role is as important in the field as at home. Women are constantly at work, breaking earth, transplanting, weeding, reaping, pounding or carrying head loads of fodder, firewood, manure, water, grain, flour and in the building season when men build terrace walls and terrace the fields, they break earth-clods and excavate stones and carry them.
After house hold chores of looking after the children and cooking, women are usually away from their homes most of the day collecting grass, leaves or firewood or tending animals in the forests. On moonlit nights at harvest time they often work in the fields after meals past midnight. Besides carrying the produce to her home, she has to spread it for drying on the roof or the yard to protect it from early decomposition. In horticulture, besides the pruning and plucking she is also mainly responsible for grading and packing of apples. The rearing of animals, milking of cows and buffaloes, preparing butter milk and butter and later ghee are all performed by women. Collection of the dung of cattle, dumping it and later carrying it to the field to be used as manure is the woman's job.
Winter and rainy season are a period of inactivity in the fields. But even then, women spin, weave or knit and makes mats and baskets. Some even help their mates in chopping wood. This inequitable division of labour among men and women is surprising. Probably when agriculture was first started in the hills, man engaged himself in the more intensive tasks like that of cleaning the fields and constructing terrace walls. His wife must have assisted him sowing and harvesting the crop. Later this division of labour became more or less fixed, even when the work of cleaning and terracing did not engage him to that extent. Hill women are not inhibited in her work or behaviour. She maintains her cheerfulness as also her freedom. Though tradition ridden, she has many liberal ideas of family relationships.
The married women in the area are fond of dressing up and bedecking themselves with ornaments of all kinds. The married women braid their hair and wear numerous pieces of jewellery denoting their married status. They must wear a ring (koka) in their noses and their clothes are colourful and often trimmed with Gota (silver or gold edging). They cover their faces in front of the elders and may not speak directly to older relatives like the father-in-law, the uncle-in-law or the husband's older brothers. They must not sit on a seat higher than the one occupied by the elders of the family. Serving the in-laws, massaging and rubbing them with oil are all parts of her daily routine. If a women forgoes any of her duties, she is heavily criticized.
The widows life is totally colourless. She must live like a nun and she cannot wear colourful clothes or jewellery or participate in the singing and dancing on feast days and festivals.
The woman in Himachal are bound strictly by traditions. They must not utter the first name of an older relative but imply it symbolically or by pointing at an article with a similar name. On feast days and festivals all of them barring widows dress up in all their finery with colourful skirts and scarves and waistcoats and rows of jewellery all over their bodies.
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They work side by side with men in agriculture and their role is as important in the field as at home. Women are constantly at work, breaking earth, transplanting, weeding, reaping, pounding or carrying head loads of fodder, firewood, manure, water, grain, flour and in the building season when men build terrace walls and terrace the fields, they break earth-clods and excavate stones and carry them.
After house hold chores of looking after the children and cooking, women are usually away from their homes most of the day collecting grass, leaves or firewood or tending animals in the forests. On moonlit nights at harvest time they often work in the fields after meals past midnight. Besides carrying the produce to her home, she has to spread it for drying on the roof or the yard to protect it from early decomposition. In horticulture, besides the pruning and plucking she is also mainly responsible for grading and packing of apples. The rearing of animals, milking of cows and buffaloes, preparing butter milk and butter and later ghee are all performed by women. Collection of the dung of cattle, dumping it and later carrying it to the field to be used as manure is the woman's job.
Winter and rainy season are a period of inactivity in the fields. But even then, women spin, weave or knit and makes mats and baskets. Some even help their mates in chopping wood. This inequitable division of labour among men and women is surprising. Probably when agriculture was first started in the hills, man engaged himself in the more intensive tasks like that of cleaning the fields and constructing terrace walls. His wife must have assisted him sowing and harvesting the crop. Later this division of labour became more or less fixed, even when the work of cleaning and terracing did not engage him to that extent. Hill women are not inhibited in her work or behaviour. She maintains her cheerfulness as also her freedom. Though tradition ridden, she has many liberal ideas of family relationships.
The married women in the area are fond of dressing up and bedecking themselves with ornaments of all kinds. The married women braid their hair and wear numerous pieces of jewellery denoting their married status. They must wear a ring (koka) in their noses and their clothes are colourful and often trimmed with Gota (silver or gold edging). They cover their faces in front of the elders and may not speak directly to older relatives like the father-in-law, the uncle-in-law or the husband's older brothers. They must not sit on a seat higher than the one occupied by the elders of the family. Serving the in-laws, massaging and rubbing them with oil are all parts of her daily routine. If a women forgoes any of her duties, she is heavily criticized.
The widows life is totally colourless. She must live like a nun and she cannot wear colourful clothes or jewellery or participate in the singing and dancing on feast days and festivals.
The woman in Himachal are bound strictly by traditions. They must not utter the first name of an older relative but imply it symbolically or by pointing at an article with a similar name. On feast days and festivals all of them barring widows dress up in all their finery with colourful skirts and scarves and waistcoats and rows of jewellery all over their bodies.
HIMACHAL NEWS
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PICTURE GALLERY
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Dussehra / Vijaya Dashmi
OCT 19 2018
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Himachal Pradesh is a village in the mountainous regions in India.
- Himachali women are also known as the Hill-women. This is because they are known to reside in the mountainous regions.
- Himachali women are busy women who spend most of the time working in the fields, or in the forest colkecting firewood and therefore have no time to be idle.
*Therefore Himachali women give less importance to their husbands. This is because after looking and cooking for their children early in the morning, they leave for their busy day until very late in the evening.
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