After the women finished grinding the wheat, they filled the flour into a fan and prepared to take it home. As Chapter 1 recounts, they started to divide the flour into four parts for themselves. Until this point, Baba had been silent. But when he saw their greedy actions, he became angry, asking if they had gone mad and were trying to take their 'father's property'. He then gave a shocking command: they were to immediately take all the flour and throw it on the village boundary, or 'Shiwar'. This outburst left the women feeling deeply humiliated, as it exposed their selfish intentions.
Describe the climactic moment when the women tried to take the flour and Baba's subsequent command.
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