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The region where Phoolan lived, Bundelkhand, is even today extremely poor, arid, and devoid of industry; most of the able-bodied men migrate to large cities in search of work. During the period in question, the industry was depressed even in the large cities, and daily life was a grim engagement with subsistence farming in a dry region with poor soil. It was not unusual for young men to seek escape from fruitless labor in the fields by running away to the nearby ravines (the main geographical feature of the region), forming groups of bandits, and plundering their more prosperous neighbors in the villages or passing townspeople on the highways.
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The region where Phoolan lived, Bundelkhand, is even today extremely poor, arid, and devoid of industry; most of the able-bodied men migrate to large cities in search of work. During the period in question, the industry was depressed even in the large cities, and daily life was a grim engagement with subsistence farming in a dry region with poor soil. It was not unusual for young men to seek escape from fruitless labor in the fields by running away to the nearby ravines (the main geographical feature of the region), forming groups of bandits, and plundering their more prosperous neighbors in the villages or passing townspeople on the highways.