![]() ![]() They just know it that way and accept it like everything else in their lives. People are kind of happy in their marriages. His wife comes from a village 3 kilometers away, so the martenal home is not far. This is not always easy for the women, especially since the marriages are usually arranged and so many lonely tears flow, when moving to the next village.Īshok marriage was also arranged. In India, it is common for sons to stay in families with the wife and children, while daughters move into the man’s family house. ![]() Ashok has eight siblings, of whom only one brother and one sister are married yet. Ashok built his own house three years ago, a year after his marriage, simply due to a lack of space. Normally, the families in Indian villages still live together as large families with several generations. A promontory of the Himalayas.Īshok living style is unusual in Kanol and is called nuclear family. The village is located about 400 km north of Delhi in the hilly Shivalik mountains. The following article is about the life of the hard-working village women from Himachal Pradesh (a mountain state of India), but also about the life and rhythm in the village in general using the example of Ashok and his family from the village of Kanol.ģ2 year old Ashok lives with his 31 year old wife and his two children Ansul (three-year-old boy) and Namika (six-year-old girl) in a house with three cows, four chickens (the number is constantly changing) and his thirteen-year-old niece (she lives with her in the house to help the family with the housework) in the 700 inhabitants village of Kanol. Well, that’s right, but have you ever washed laundry at the river by hand? Do you collect wild plants every day and grow cereals and vegetables to feed yourself? Do you have to cook on firewood and walk up a mountain for four hours a day to collect grass for the cows or fire wood? Now some of us may think: “Hey, I do my household, besides my work! I don’t have any cows, but the dog has to be looked after.” Their day is filled with doing laundry, preparing meals, keeping the house clean, taking care of the cows and children, collecting the firewood and, and, and… In addition, many of them do not speak English, which makes it even more difficult to befriend them. They are often at home as housewives and have a long and labour-intensive day. It is very difficult for me to get in touch with women from the villages. Women are the managers of the villageĪlthough I have been living in the Indian mountain village of Old Manali for several years by now, I am mainly in contact with men there. I was very grateful about this invitation, because I had long wanted to get an insight into the village life of the women in the mountains. I was invited to the village Kanol by my former trekking guide Ashok from Daramshala. This allows me to get a great insight of the people of India and to experience how the inhabitants of India live. Should you run out of room at your Woodland Workshop, you can craft your item at the Riverside Workshop instead.I am very fortunate to have friends all over India, all of them with very different lifestyles, different religiouns and from different societies. The advantage to this is that, because they are not shared, it is possible to use their capacities to your advantage. Different materials are needed to upgrade the Woodland Workshop to the Riverside Workshop. ![]() However, it does mean that you cannot build two of the same kind of well or fire simultaneously.Īlthough the function of the Workshop remains the same across the villages, their construction is unique to each. ![]() The upshot of this is that you do not need to unlock multiple varieties of wells and fires. Your Food Store, Resource Store, and Water Store are all shared so that your villagers in the Mountain can access things only available in the Woodland or Riverside.Īlthough Wells and Fires are not shared - each village has its own - the buildings remain the same no matter what village you are in. The majority of your resources, including food and Water, are shared between the villages. There are currently three villages, each with their own specific Shelters, foodstuffs, resources, and fun items.Ī fourth village, the Beach, is referenced in the gameplay, but has not yet been released. The Village is a central feature of the game. ![]()
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