EAST LOOKS TO WEST.
"The so-called unchanging East is no longnr unchanging," said the Begum of Navvas at the, India Round Table Confererce.
Ten years ago, she said, nobody would have thought that Indian women could go to London and participate in a political conference. Yet to-day not only Hindu women but Moslem women, belonging to a family the women of which observed the strictest purdah, or seclusion, were sitting round the table with their brethren, evolving a constitution.
'I he women of India who were reviving the nation must rejoice at its awakening, hut must also realise the tremendous responsibilities of guiding younger generations along tho straight road.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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