Describe Mumtaz. What tactics does she use to gain control of lakshmi, both physically and emotionally?

1. Mumtaz is cruel and greedy women. All the pain and all of the suffering she inflicts on the poor girls is based on her need and greed for money. The only thing that matters to her is to get more money and she doesn't care what she does to others in order to get it.

2. Mumtaz does several things in order to control Lakshmi. Firstly she uses physical violence as she whips and hits Lakshmi when she does not obey her commands. So she physically abuses her in order to break her will. She also starves her constantly, when she is defiant. She also uses emotional torture as she says that Lakshmi has to work to pay off the debts for her family. So Lakshmi is scared that something will happen to her family.