WOMEN IN INDIA.
PROBLEMS OF PURDAH. While the walls of “purdah”— women’s seclusion—are crumbling fast among educated Indians, they have begun to present a big problem for those engaged in preparing electoral rolls under the new constitution, .states a writer in Lahore (India). The customs of the purdah vary from province to province, from district to district, and from village to village. In some cases a woman in purdah may on no account mention her name in the presence of strangers; the name also is in purdah. In other cases a woman is not allowed by custom to mention her husband’s name. As most of the Moslem women entitled to vote are in purdah, the question has arisen of finding a way out of the resultant difficulty of identifying them. This is by no means the only difficulty in dealing with women voters in purdah. The fact that Moslems have no surnames and the designations which identify them are not exclusive, makes the enrolment of women voters by description hazardous. _____
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 60, 21 December 1935, Page 6
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