The Kalasha woman as an integral part of the family and the community
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The Kalasha woman as an integral part of the family and the community
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After
the start day, the goshnik, when the four year old young lady formally puts on
grown-up apparel, that is the piran and the shushut (not the kupas so far!),
the Kalasha young lady is prepared to face her obligations in the family she is
raised by. Her first errand will be to bring water from the stream for cooking
or to take the metal glasses to the stream or to the close-by tap (in the event
that it is working) for washing. Continuously heavier tasks enter her life:
Bringing her garments down to the waterway and washing them; or gathering
kindling and after that conveying it on her in a goat hair wicker bin to her
home; or trimming grass for the bovine or heating the Kalasha bread, the
tasili; or getting included in cultivating. Whatever the errand she is
constantly sprightly and content with what she is doing.[1]At the point when achieving adolescence, unless she chooses to abandon her town and attend a university in Chitral town, the Kalasha young lady will get hitched at 16 years old or 17 (now and then at 14!) with the young fellow she picks. Every so often, relational unions should be possible by game plan. The recently wedded young lady won't instantly move into her spouse's family home. She might backtrack to her dad's home for quite a while and afterward return to her spouse's family home where she ordinarily settles down after the conception of her first conceived. The Kalasha female's life - from right on time youth up to exceptionally seniority is entwined with hard work. The six-yearold young lady (additionally the kid) will wake up at 5:00 in the morning to bring water from the close-by stream for washing or little twigs for the flame so her mom can cook the tasili (bread) and the tea or milk for her and her brothers or sisters. Then the young female pupil will have to struggle to school either downhill or uphill, walking on narrow uneven and precipitous paths or cliffs for one mile or five depending on the distance-sometimes she will have to walk to the next village! Around early afternoon she will repeat the morning chores plus helping her mother with hand-crafts, for example, knitting the shuman. Or she will go to the field of corn or maize and work by her mother’s side, digging under the hot afternoon sun or changing the flow of water in the channels in the field an irrigation task performed daily exclusively by females.
Not with
standing amid this time she will be wearing the dark piran (her dress) and the
substantial hat (the shushut just) and adornments (the ma'ik) around her
exposed neck. There is not really at whatever time for play. Her toys are
generally little adjusted stones to play a round of jacks or greater stones
wrapped with old material. Later on at night all the family assemble to eat the
dinner that her mom has made – for the most part beans with rice and the tasili,
the common Kalasha bread just maize flour in water, prepared on a warmed stove
by exposed hands (tasili made of wheat flour or walnut tasili, cheddar,
margarine and meat are eaten just with visitors or on extraordinary events, for
example, wedding or burial service functions). After that, the young lady with
her senior sisters will take the pots and the containers to the close-by
streams and wash every one of them in plain water.[2]
This is
a standard errand together with the washing of her own garments. She brings
them down to the stream or waterway and washes them completely with a bar of
cleanser by beating them hard on a bit of wood or stone and after that she
hangs them on a wall or trees. Once in a while for substantial washing an
expansive pot with bubbling water is put beside the stream. The additional
assignment of the young lady is to keep the flame going. One might ponder would
could it be that keeps the Kalasha young lady or lady of any age constantly
vivacious and with such a bright face! All the time I was flabbergasted to see
them having a ball in sewing their own garments on the sewing-machine or
weaving the pati (belt) outside the house, on the new grass of their yard
beside the bovine and in the meantime breastfeeding a little child! Indeed, the
answer is self-evident! It is their own demeanor, their character and identity,
their meticulousness and manner. This high soul is reflected in their
remarkable moving amid the celebrations for which they set up their looks and
appearance somewhat early. In the Kalasha dialect there are no names for the
times of the week, nor for the months of the year. The primary celebrations
(Lievre and Loude 1980) happen as per normal occasions of the season. In spring
the Zhoshi celebration (Might 12), in summer the Uc'aw (August) and in winter
the Chawmos (December) which is the biggest and most religious one. Despite the
fact that the Kalasha lady is barred and really banned from the havens and
religious (Lievre 1996) or shamanistic practices because of the thought of
polluting influence connected with the lady, none of these celebrations can be
delighted in without the vicinity of the Kalasha female. It is the obvious
clothing and her imperativeness, the applauding, the melodies and the moving
that keep the celebrations.[3]
[1] Intrator Mira, Romaine Rattame Kalash Solstice (Islamabad,Loke
virsa publication house, None)
[2] http://www.kalashwelfare.org/index.php?/about-kalash/history-and-culture-of-the-kalash/
[3] Schombery R.C.F Kafirs and
Glaciers travel in Chitral (None, Martin Hoplainson limited, 1932)