Question

life of a girl in the early 19TH centuary

Answer 1

Women life was an endless round of hard work and drudgery. they worked on farms and in factories. housework was very hard without electricity. They need to take care of the house, family and cook food. Not allowed to get educated even.

Answer 2

The 19th century India was far far away from being the ideal society for a girl child to live in. The state of girls and women at that time was worse than any one could imagine. The male child was considered superior than her (as it still is the reality for many of Indian families). She had no right to study either. By the time a girl crosses the age of 6 or 7, she was stopped from setting foot outside her home and the preparation for her marriage would have already begun. By the age of 10-11 most of the girls were married and that too with men way too older than them. And soon they were forced to give birth. The only thing worse than getting married without her will, was to become a widow. In the early period of 19th century Sati was still prevalent in the society. So a girl had to go through mental and sexual trauma until her husband was alive and after his death she had to sit on his pyre and get burned to death. Even after the horrific Sati practice was abolished, a widow's life was not easy. She had to go through living hell.