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3 days ago · Moreover, in Aborodhbashini, she scornfully recounts how she had to live in an extreme purdah system from the age of five, which segregated her not only from men but also from women outside...
1 day ago · The purdah for Muslim upper- and middle-class women in India and later Pakistan and Bangladesh, both in the form of gender segregation as well as the veil, fell out of fashion due to women's active mobilisation in the anticolonial struggle for independence.
4 days ago · In 1929, she published a pamphlet, “Purdah – the need for its abolition”. This pamphlet is about young widows who were denied the chance to contribute to the Indian Society. She also decided to take the Widow attire after the death of her ex-husband, Dadji Bhikaji in 1904.
3 days ago · Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932), fondly known as Begum Rokeya, was an autodidact who became a formidable champion of women’s rights and education when women in South Asia, especially Muslim women, were forced to live in subhuman conditions, almost like animals, or even worse than animals (Rokeya’s analogies).
1 day ago · South Asian traditions of female seclusion, called purdah, may have been influenced by Islamic customs. Ashoka, the emperor of the Maurya Empire in India, kept a harem of around 500 women, all of whom were under strict rules of seclusion and etiquette. In Islamic cultures Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates
2 days ago · As the daughter of the last Caliph of Turkey, Princess Dürrühsehvar Sultan made notable contributions to the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad. From establishing hospitals for women and children to advocating for the removal of the purdah, her efforts are remembered even today.
1 day ago · Ramakrishna argued with him that women will be protected through good education and devotion to God, and not through Purdah. Once a challenge was thrown by Durgadas that it was impossible to look into his inner apartments, Ramakrishna accepted the challenge and dressed himself like a weaver woman, then fooled Durgadas with his disguise and ...
