"In this book, a remarkable woman who is also a gifted story-teller, recounts the reminiscences of her adventurous life. Born in feudal era, she never went to school, was married at seventeen, went to live with her husband in the Rajasthan desert, and had six children. She gives a vivid portrait of the now vanished feudal world of her childhood and its transformation after independence. She also became a scholar of Rajasthani literature and published many ...