![]() ![]() The most important men in my village are the two mighty lambardars. ![]() The village has a couple of inns also, where travelers take shelter for the night. The centres of interest, however, in the village are the school, to which most of the boys repair and the mosque where the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer five times a day. My village has also a dispensary where sore eyes are cured, and fever is treated. The village has barbers with none too keen wits and dull razors, carpenters with primitive instruments, shoe makers whose shoes are known more for durability than for beauty and blacksmiths who make ploughshares and sickles. The village is inhabited mostly by farmers. It is this insanitary condition of the village, which renders it an easy prey to malaria plague and other epidemics. These lanes are littered with the refuse and rubbish of houses and have also puddles of dirty water, which breed swarms of lusty mosquitoes. Some of the houses have a court-yard also, where he cattle are kept in summer. Mostly these houses have only one room, which serves as a kitchen, bed-room, reception-room, store-room, and nursery. These houses have low roofs, one door and generally no windows. My village consists mostly of kachcha houses. ![]() The road is, however, uneven and full of ruts, and becomes almost impassable when the rains fall. A kachcha, dusty road runs by my village, which is made use of by the people who go on foot, ride a horse or journey in a tum-tum. It is ten miles from the nearest railway station, and about sixteen miles from the district town. My village is in one of the backward districts of Sind. Points : Situation - Consists mainly of Kacha houses - The people of the village and their work - The centers of interests in the village - Lambardars - The important men of the village - Life of the villagers. ![]()
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