As was the practice at that time and due to pressure from her mother, she was married at the age of nine to Gopalrao Joshi, a widower almost twenty years older than her.
按照當時的習俗，在家庭的壓力下，她9歲時就被嫁給了比她大將近20歲的鰥夫戈帕爾拉沃·喬希（Gopalrao Joshi）。