Born a Dusad girl, Dhowli's family has always been on the poor side, something that took a turn for the worse after the death of her father. Dhowli's later involvement with Misrilal is something that changed the tides for the worse for her and her mother. Once it got around that Dhowli gave herself to Misrilal and was impregnated, the villagers then turned against her and her family. It is stated that "because of the love aspect of this case, she was now an outcaste to her own people […] If the Misra boy had taken her by force, then she would not have been faulted either; […] Her crime, something that nobody was prepared to forgive, ywas that she gave herself to him of her own accord." (241) With the villagers unwilling to step in and offer
