purdah in A Sentence

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    The wail of Purdah went up again.

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    Muslims and high-caste Hindu women observed Purdah.

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    I started wearing Purdah and praying five times a day.

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    Muslims, with their tradition of Purdah, can at times be secretive.

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    The Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent brought Purdah to Indian society.

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    most women of that period more or less illiterate and in Purdah.

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    to lessen the insistence on Purdah did not come all at once.

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    Purdah rules prohibited women from saying their husband's name or having their photograph taken.

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    Obviously Purdah would not disappear in a day it Would take many years,

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    Although she was illiterate, she was brave and refused to follow the Purdah tradition.

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    Her autobiography is titled From Purdah to Parliament: A Muslim Woman in Indian Politics.

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    I must tell you that, before this change we had been kept in strict Purdah.'.

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    And the Purdah, which hid our brave and beautiful women, and was a curse to

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    Purdah, which was the dress of a negligible minority in Kerala, has now become the identity of Muslim women.

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    I had never even stepped out of the house, never travelled except to visit relatives and always lived in Purdah.

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    And the Purdah, which hid our brave and beautiful women, and was a curse to them and to their country, where is it now?

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    It was strange that while, on the one hand, he was trying to persuade them to give up Purdah and other outdated customs,

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    Obviously Purdah would not disappear in a day it Would take many years, and it would take even longer for its indirect ill- effects to disappear.

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    The decision to accept modern education, to send their sons to English- medium schools, to lessen the insistence on Purdah did not come all at once.

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    He worked for eradicating evils like sati, child marriage and Purdah system, championed widow marriage and women's education and favoured English system of education in India.

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    In speaking about all this, Badruddin pointed out that the whole rigid and elaborate Purdah system was founded on the few generalities in the Quran, where women were told not to flaunt their beauty before man.

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    It was strange that while, on the one hand, he was trying to persuade them to give up Purdah and other outdated customs, he was at the same time trying to protect their feelings from being outraged by open criticism from other communities.

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