Is it fair to the dairy farmer to expect him to go on, doomed to a life of drudgery with such small financial reward?
Rassundari's happy assessment of her life as a wife and a householder has to be read with her description of back-breaking drudgery which was a central feature of that life.
The "drudgery and sordid everlasting cares" (13) of a meagre household and their courtship are shadowed by concerns that they must "learn to be economical" (44).
Some people exaggerated the drudgery of their lives, expecting that outside supporters should resolve every problem.
The key issue of note here is that there is much unavoidable drudgery involved in solving the information discovery problem today.
Women from poor farming households provide unpaid labour and suffer the drudgery of hand weeding to obtain higher yields.
However, as the number of actions or records increases, such direct manipulation quickly becomes a repetitive drudgery.
Women may have found in such extra-marital relationships a degree of solace and escape from everyday drudgery.
