I am a member of the Bhil tribe from the Nashik district of the Maharashtra State of India. Though the life of tribal people is very carefree but at the same time they have to face a lot of adverse situations in their lives. My mother tells me that when I was about 2 years old, the economic condition of the tribal people was so miserable that almost all the womenfolk of this tribe have to go out to work to help meet both ends meet because it was not always guaranteed that the menfolk had permanent work.So whoever woman had small children they used to tie slings of their old sarees in their huts and administer some type of medicine to the small children so that they can remain in a state of stupor until they return from work in the evening as the work they went to do was not such that they can take small children with them.
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