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Fill in the table.
| Period | Way of Addressing a Mother | Boy’s Costume | Lady’s Costume | Daily Chores | Games |
| The 1950s | silk saree | ||||
| 1910 | Kurta pajama and cap | ||||
| The 1800s | |||||
| The 1500s | |||||
| 1000 | |||||
| 100 AD | feed poultry tend sheep keep away birds plaster the yard | ||||
| 3000 BC | Chaupar |
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Solution
| Period | Way of Addressing a Mother | Boy’s Costume | Lady’s Costume | Daily Chores | Games |
| The 1950s | Mama | Loose trousers and shirt | silk saree | Watering the - garden, bringing the groceries, dusting the living room, cleaning the bicycle | - |
| 1910 | Mummy | Kurta pyjama and cap | Nine-yard saree, nose ring and jewellery | Fetching water and filling up the pots, sweeping the terrace, collecting wood for the stove, cleaning the grinding stones | Riverside with friends |
| The 1800s | Mother dear | Dhoti, kurta and turban | Nine-yard saree and traditional jewellery | Washing clothes at the river and putting them up to dry, chopping the wood, fixing the broken fence, taking the goats to graze | Atya-Patya |
| The 1500s | My dear mother | Sleeveless loose V-neck top and dhoti | Nine-yards saree | Milking the cows, taking them to graze, fetching vegetables from their farm and stacking them, sweeping both the back yard and the front yard | Ashtapada |
| 1000 | Most revered mother | Flare tunic and churidar, waistband and turban | Saree, upper garment and lots of jewellery | Fetching water from the lake and pouring it into the farm channels to water their crops, clearing the blocked channels, pulling out weeds, patching the mud walls with cracks. | Puppet show |
| 100 AD | Matadevi | Dhoti and a waistband, with no shirt | Saree and an upper garment, and beads jewellery | feed poultry tend sheep keep away birds plaster the yard | Bagh-Chal |
| 3000 BC | I bow to thee! | A cloth around the waist held by a chord, long hair in a bun or ponytail | Saree, a veil with stone and beads jewellery | Hunting down food for their family, helping his father carve stone bricks for their new house, dusting their leather clothes, moulding mud pots for cooking and putting them to dry. | Chaupar |
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