Udaipur work Rajasthan
is famous for its miniature paintings. Marble "factories," were
the stone is polished, are found for 6 km along one road in Udaipur.
Women do the manual labor in the marble factories and in road and house
construction. Women carry dirt, stones, wood, water, and other bulk items on
their heads. Men wait for daily work along a major highway and men pull
carts and operate bullock-pulled carts and rickshaws and motorized rickshaws and
trucks. Tribal people live and work along a road and the women are
hammering steel in their make-shift blacksmith. Brick factories
dot the landscape: local clays are dung out of the ground, mixed with
water, and molded into bricks; left to dry for four days and then
staked in kilns for slow burning, up to 14 days. The finished
fired-bricks are load by women onto trucks. Bullocks rest along
the road between work and camels appear occasionally in this eastern part
of Rajasthan hauling wild grasses for cattle feed; sometimes, camels are
even used to plow fields. In addition, camels provide milk for human consumption
and hair for rugs.