Nectar In A Sieve Summary

Brief Summary Nectar in a Sieve is a story about a woman named Rukmani who is reflecting back on her life. Rukmani is married to Nathan at the young age of twelve. Nathan is a good man who is a tenant farmer who loves the land that he lives and works on. Despite the very young and rapid marriage, Nathan and Rukmani grow to truly love each other and find happiness in each other. Rukmani learns the role of a wife and learns the chores of her new life. One of her roles as a wife now is to bare children. Rukmani is pregnant within a year of her marriage and gives birth to a beautiful little girl. During the next few years, Rukmani is unable to conceive and not able to give her husband any sons. Rukmani being frustrated goes to a trusted doctor, Kenny, without Nathan’s knowledge and gets treated for her infertility. With success from the treatment, Rukmani is able to bare five boys for Nathan.
Over powering role of male and female Indian culture is known for having arranged marriages, especially for their daughter at a young age. Rukmani was sold to Nathan at a young age. Despite her young age and her being married so young, she was in a way forced to have a child at a young age as well. In many …show more content…
In Colonial India, the Child Marriage Restraint Act (Sharda Bill) was passed and forewent that the minimum age of marriage for a female was set at fourteen and for a male at eighteen. Due to the pressures given from education, economy, and migration the age of marriage was raised in both genders. The difference between Colonial India and India in the modern time is that civil marriage is now a right for both genders. There is now an equal platform between males and females than there was in the colonial times. Women are now being educated as well and that has been the biggest turning point for women since the colonial times. Many of the movements that they participated in helped in getting awareness of their