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It's a familiar scene of daily drudgery.
that greets me when I reach 19-year-old Munna's house.
She and her mother Lali toiling away, drawing water from the well,
washing clothes, as Munna's father rests inside.
Once Lali is done here, she will walk for a mile to the nearby field to work as a farm labourer.
Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
I am Divya Arya and this is Assignment.
from the northwest of India.
Women in this village in the Indian state of Rajasthan,
a nine-hour drive from the country's capital,
Delhi, are mostly illiterate and they are married off early.
Lali and I are the same age, but the toll on her of a tough life is evident.
Lali says everything changed when she became a child bride.
It made life so difficult, bringing up children, taking care of the husband and daily chores.
And if you get a husband who is alcoholic, then it's very difficult to run the household.