THE BLACK HOLE OF PURDAH
‘‘lt is hard to realise the intellectual stagnation of the women who live in Rurd.'h until you have talked with diein, and tried to describe some circumstance outside their' life,’ said Airs L. A. Underhill, in a speech reported in flip “Asiatic Review.” “'One small instance: 1 was staying with a friend in Amrnsar, and went with her to cab on a wealthy Purdah lady of the old regime. -She asked about my journey irom England, and about the voyage. I tried to think of the impression what I said would make on .liter mind, but when I fouqd that she ,had not spen a river, a lake, a canal, ;or” r even a village tank—l had -peTfcrce, to' deg.-ribe. the sea as ‘like tubs and tubs of water as far as; she could sep,..a,nd the ship as a movable house.going:over it.’ That may seem an extreme case;-but.in all we heal: of the spread of the new movement for freedom,..jet us. not forget, that .thousands-, of-, .yyorqen do exist to-day, living in. ■ comlpltete seclusion. • .'
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1930, Page 2
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179THE BLACK HOLE OF PURDAH Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1930, Page 2
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