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In rural India, if you want to drink water, you have to marry more wives to help fetch water, and this kind of thing seems to be no longer surprising in India.
Although monogamy has been practiced in India, a man can still marry multiple wives here, and even these women are still vying to marry men.
Extremely arid India
India is the most "wonderful" country in the world, and with the development of the economy, India has become the fifth largest economic system in the world.
Moreover, with the development of India's science and technology, according to experts' predictions, India is likely to surpass the Japanese economy by 2025 and become the world's fourth largest economic system.
Of course, these are just speculations, after all, in India, a very unreliable country, anything can happen, although India has developed very rapidly in recent years, there are still many problems in the country that have not been solved, the most important is water resources.
According to the data, in 2019, nearly 600 million people in India were still living without water, and there were a large number of factories in India, so India's water pollution was very serious, and there was very little water to drink.
On average, nearly 200,000 people die every year in India because they don't have access to water, which is also a very high proportion of deaths in India.
Therefore, in some poor or water-scarce areas of India, a special group of women "water wives" have emerged.
Being able to "water wife" is also considered to burn high incense
"Water wife" is the most unique name among Indian women, and their fate after becoming a water wife is not smooth, whether it is from life or life, it is a very miserable beginning.
As long as you become a man's "water wife" in India, then you will become a "faucet" in your life, replenishing water for Indian men anytime and anywhere.
Therefore, if you want to drink more water in India, you can only marry multiple wives to fetch water for yourself, and all subsequent women will become men's "water wives" except for the first wife.
Their main task is to fetch water for their husbands, although they seem to be men's wives on the surface, but she is just a waterman in the whole family and her husband's heart, without any family status, not to mention that the right to speak is like a slave in the feudal period.
When it comes to social status, the status of women who may be "water wives" in India is even lower than that of women in the feudal period on the mainland, which makes many people puzzled. What is the reason behind this?
From this custom alone, it can be seen that in India, men have a very high social status, and have a great power to speak and make decisions, so it can be said that they completely control the fate of women's lives, which is also significantly the status of women in India is very low.
Although Indian women have had the experience of rebellion before, the final result has not been successful, but the status of women in society is more humble, sometimes these Indian women have no social status, like the "accessory" of their husbands.
India has always been a very traditional country, such a country does not have a lot of fairness for women in the country, as long as Indian women reach the age of marriage, they will be directly arranged by their parents to marry, there is no freedom at all.
Parents don't care at all whether their daughters are happy when they marry into a man's family, whether they will be bullied by men, they don't have these concerns at all, they just want to marry their daughters off the opposite sex, do they only value "bride price" in the eyes of parents in India?
Obviously not, in the special country of India, the Indian marrying girl still has to give the man a bride price, that is, the mainland's "dowry", after marriage, if you want your daughter to live well in the man's house, you have to give the man enough dowry.
It can be seen that there is no equality between men and women in India at all, and in married life, women who do not listen to their husbands will be subjected to all kinds of abuse and even whipping, if you are lucky to become a man's first wife, then the rest of your life will be better.
If you are unlucky and become a man's second or even subsequent wife, then the second half of your life will be regarded as the beginning of a tragic fate, not only will you not have any status but you will also obey the command of your husband and wife, and you will not be able to resist anything.
But in order to be able to get the charity of their husbands, these "water wives" will also rush to ask the man to marry her home as a "water wife", and from then on she will not have any complaints about taking up a job of fetching water, just so that she can live.
Appalling widow burial
Although India is also an ancient civilization, India's history and culture are always a little outrageous, and it is even difficult for people to understand.
To this day, India still retains the ancient system of burial, after the death of the husband, his wife can not continue to live, but has to go into the fire and self-immolate at the time of cremation, burying the wife and the husband together.
This behavior is also known in India as sati, which means "chastity", and expresses the wife's single-minded love for her husband.
Moreover, in India, no matter what the reason for the death of the husband, the wife who has lost her husband will be given "special" care in society, and will not only suffer from the discussion and discrimination of others, but also be isolated by the people around her.
As a result, no one is willing to talk to these "widows", and even when they encounter difficulties, no one will lend a helping hand to them, so these "widows" will suffer very much trouble in their lives, and even find jobs will be difficult to find, and they have no source of livelihood and can only start to find men to take them in.
Therefore, the women who are "water wives" in India are basically widowed women, although they are "water wives", but they have no wives at all, and they are more like slaves of their husbands.
Although it is a very painful thing to be a "water wife", it is much better than wandering on the streets, and you will not starve to death on the streets because you can't eat.
So far, this phenomenon still exists in India, and with the development of the times, the "water wives" are gradually regarded by the locals as a tool to receive water, and they are not regarded as human beings at all.
If India can pay attention to water conservancy construction as soon as possible and rectify some bad customs and habits, women in India may not be treated like this.
References
China Youth Daily, July 30, 2019 – In Indian villages, water scarcity has given birth to a group of "water wives"
China News Network, June 8, 2015 -- It is popular in India's arid areas to marry "water wives" to fetch water for their husbands' families
June 8, 2015 – The solution to drought in Indian villages: marrying a "water wife" to get water
People's Information, December 20, 2021 - Widows are only half a person? Cruel loyalty in the "holy city" of India