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GLOSSARY India glossary |
transcriptVillage Dargi is one of the farthest villages of Chamba Block, where the inhabitants of the original village of Said Koti (near Badshahi Thaul), 12 kms away, migrated. Despite this they are still living amidst many difficulties. Dargi is still today far from obtaining any benefits of progress. It is 6 kms away from the main roadway. Despite being the working area of many voluntary organisations and an agriculture university campus, the village life is incomplete (unfulfilling). The people of the village are not ready to adopt the developmental techniques of all these organisations. Many want change, but not the modern technology based one. They hold our modern techniques responsible for the changing environment and situational equilibrium. Vimla Devi is an influential woman of this village. Her point of view on technology is to be noted. |
| Section 1 | Are you a native of Dargi village, or have you settled here after coming from outside? Would you tell me something about this? Our village is actually Said Koti. We are natives of Said Koti and settled in Dargi. We are told that this is our fourth generation in Dargi. Our caste is Negi and now we are about 50 families in Dargi. |
So, your paternal village is Said Koti? Yes our paternal village is Said Koti. |
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Do people of your community still live in Said Koti? Yes, people from our community are there. We go to each other's place during marriages and other functions. This way, our contacts are maintained even now. |
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How many families are there in your village? 50 families of Negis live in our village. In the beginning three families went there and now the three have become 50 families. |
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What would be the population of your village? I think it would be above two hundred. |
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How many people are there in your own family? There are eleven people in my family. |
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Do you all live together? Yes, we all live together. Eleven people of my own, others belong to my younger brother-in-law's wife and my elder brother-in-law's wife. |
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| Section 2 | How many children do you have i.e. how many sons and how many daughters are there? I have a daughter and two sons, four grandsons and one granddaughter. |
Would you tell me about your children, what do they do? What can I say about my children, I was a very young widow and I have two sons. My children are a widow's children - children without a guardian - and nowadays it is the era of the educated. Without this, one doesn't get jobs either, and my children are not that capable. Meaning, they are not so well educated, that's why they didn't get jobs. There is no government job, only this job: they are looking after families by doing labour, hard work. |
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So now what are your sons doing? Please tell me. What is there to tell? I think it is only labour. They do not have any position for me to talk about. |
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Even then, they must be doing something, some occupation? One son of mine is doing contract work in Pant Nagar and has a sweet shop. This is the only occupation of our family. |
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What does your daughter do? The daughter is married and is in her in-law's house. |
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I see. Is your daughter also educated? No, my daughter is not educated. My situation was not such that I could educate her. I did not have that much money. I did not have the means to feed my children’s stomachs and mine. So educating them was too far from my reach. |
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What do you think about the education of girls; should girls be educated or not? I understand that girls should be educated. Through education, all troubles end. Educated girls can manage when faced with troubles. The uneducated have great difficulty. I think of my own situation as an example; if I were not illiterate then I would have done something. But I am uneducated; hence I had to face many difficulties. If I was educated then I could have lessened my sorrows. I have faced a lot of sorrow and difficulty. Now, it is a very long story |