'Temporary Chairwomen'-Nostalgic Patriarchy still in Banswara
'Temporary Chairwomen'-Nostalgic Patriarchy still in Banswara
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Even in today's time women has been regarded as inferior in the society in front of a men. Highlighting to the above statement many villages in Rajasthan and across the India has been following baseless customs till today. 

In the villages of the Bori, Kharveda and Semalia in Banswara district, Rajasthan has been following such a custom where women's are not allowed to sit on the chairs or high altitude things. They tend to sit on the ground only in front of a men even if they are poorly conditioned,no matter what the situation is.

Most of the people there are farmers and been to the same village for years, but they were traditionally weavers from the beginning but since a few years they have stopped weaving and started farming. 

This is the custom of the village where womens are not allowed to sit at the same level of men as mens are traditionally the superiors in the society and this ideology has been still running in the very minds of the people of different areas, caste, religion and creed. 

They don't only sit on grounds in front of men or elders of the society but to the people in front of whom they perceive them as inferiors or can be termed as in front of everyone. To who so ever they presume as the more powerful in terms of masculine power or privileged. 

Even elderly womens are not considered to set free from such a custom they also have to sit on grounds or lower surface in front of a men. They have made this a custom in their village for women to sit on the floors no matter what, but once the women is married they can sit on the chair whenever she visits her parent's home but the daughter-in-law of the family is not allowed to sit on the chair still. 

Even the children are bound to this custom where boys sit on the chair and girls on ground. Some of the women's in Bora are dairy farmers still they are regarded as less privileged and made to sit on the floors. 

When asked to these women's whether they wanted this custom to be changed or not, some women's think that this needed to be changed and some thinks this should remain. When telling their thoughts out they were scared to speak as they don't want to offend their elders and in-laws by giving statements. 

Even while photographing them they asked to be get clicked indoors, in backyards or with their son's sitting on their lap. 

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