When schools and colleges reopen, they would have left home to work as domestic helps outside Bengal.
The story for this book was taken from all of these many resources.
I do not necessarily fault the author - she worked well with the materials on hand how lucky that many in the families preserved the letters - but, in the end, there were only a few pages in the book that actually offered a look at life as schoolteachers in the west.
Many others in Hingalganj, Hasnabad, Haroa and other areas of the Sunderbans have dropped out of school and moved outside Bengal to work as domestic helps or cooks.
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While almost all children from the top wealth quintile attend primary education, only 75 per cent of children from the bottom wealth quintile do.