Lexicographical Neighbors of Purda
Literary usage of Purda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New India, Or India in Transition by Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton (1886)
"The purda, as well as the subordinate organisation of the Zenana System, requires
that the newly married wife should be trained to the habits and ways of ..."
2. The Land of the Veda: Being Personal Reminiscences of India, Its People by William Butler (1906)
"... The especial designation of the eighteen books of I the Hindoo legends or
traditions. purda Parda A curtain or vail; partition, secrecy, privacy. ..."
3. Western Tibet and the British Borderland: The Sacred Country of Hindus and by Charles Atmore Sherring, Thomas George Longstaff (1906)
"The Hindu custom of " purda," ie, covering the face, is extending, ... However, "
purda " is so far practised that the elder brother never sees the face of ..."
4. History of India from the Earliest Times to the End of the Nineteenth by Henry George Keene (1906)
"The institution of the purda—better known in England as " Zenana"—has been for
... When a purda woman was about to be delivered, she had to trust herself to ..."
5. Women of the Orient: An Account of the Religious, Intellectual, and Social by Ross C. Houghton (1877)
"I say, decidedly not; but there are two great obstacles, namely, early marriage
and purda (seclusion), and these must be removed ere there can be any ..."
6. Women of the Orient: An Account of the Religious, Intellectual, and Social by Ross C. Houghton (1877)
"I say, decidedly not; but there are two great obstacles, namely, early marriage
and purda (seclusion), and these must be removed ere there can be any ..."
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