511:– via the image of women in Bhojpuri folk- culture/literature of migration is colourful. The women themselves are in a way suffering from migration—whether they have been left behind, or if they have been forced to migrate themselves, or if they have come with her husband to his village as an urhari. The seriousness with which Bhikhari Thakur has dealt with the travails of these women is unparalleled. In his play ‘Bidesiya’ he shows Pyari Sundari's suffering as the ideal chaste wife waiting for her husband in the village.
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Bidesiya realizes his mistake and decides to return home. Saloni asks him to not to go, but he returns to home. He reaches home and knocks on the door, his wife is scared, she asks who are you in fear, he says that I am your husband, she opens the door in fear and becomes unconscious upon seeing her husband standing in front. Saloni also comes behind
Bidesiya to his village and says what will she do without him. At last Pyari also accepts Saloni as her Sautan.
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for earning. His wife tries to stop him but he doesn't stop. After going to
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