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Children wonder if their footwear is appropriate - their rural village in the district of Ruy-e Doab is affected by yearly flash floods.

A schoolyard in the village of Ruy, in the Ruy-e Doab area.

HINDĪ, WESTERN, the Indo-Aryan language of the middle and upper Gangetic Doab, and of the country to the north and south.

The Midland consists of the Gangetic Doab and of the country to its immediate north and south, extending, roughly speaking, from the Eastern Punjab on the west, to Cawnpore on its east.

West of the Upper Doab, across the Jumna, another dialect, Bāngarū, is also found.