Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s1.57

c6.s1.57

In return for all this labour he was lucky if he could obtain a square meal every day. There are very few and very vague references to the life of the peasants, but it can be asserted with confidence that their lot was very miserable and they lived constantly in a state of semi-starvation.¹ When you have said that people go nearly naked you have practically exhausted the topic of clothing and you can write little about furniture when the possessions of a family are limited to a couple of bedsteads and a scanty supply of cooking vessels.² We shall refer to the subject again in a later part.