Complex sentence: Durga had been married off as a child, but it is believed that her boy-groom is dead and Ranjit had spread stories of her being a child-widow, in order to be the only one willing enough to marry her.
Split into simpler sentences: Durga had been married off as a child, but it is believed that her boy-groom is dead. Ranjit has spread stories of her being a child-widow, in order to be the only one willing enough to marry her.