The grandmother’s days were also a time of very poor health in India.…

Answer the following questions after reading the paragraph.

Reena’s grandmother was telling her about life in India under colonial rule. She said, “How blessed you are to be born in the twenty-first century, Reena! Let me tell you how our life looked back then. I used to sell handmade carpets in the market, and they sold at a very high price. After some time, I noticed that the demand for them fell because of the cheap machine-made goods that the British brought in. So I thought of switching to farming. But we could not meet even our basic needs, as the land now belonged to Raju, the landlord, and we were mere peasants who paid him rent. We also had to grow cash crops for British industries instead of food crops. Had I been educated, I would have done something else, but in those days very few people could study, and even fewer girls. My child, you should study well and do something good with your life.”