purdah
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- Etymology
- History
- Pre-Islamic origins
- Later history
- Rationale
- Protection and subjugation
- Respect
- Economic
- Individual motivations
- Examples of purdah
- Conduct and seclusion
- Effects
- Psychology and health
- Economic participation
- Political participation
- Influences on purdah
- Governmental policies on purdah
- Islamization
- Women's movements
- Globalization and migration
- Controversy around women's agency
- Purdah as oppression
- Purdah as "protection"
- In popular culture and media
- Books
- Bibliography
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- Historiography
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Pardah or purdah (from Hindi-Urdu , , meaning "curtain") is a religious and social practice of sex segregation prevalent among some Muslim, Zoroastrian, and Hindu communities in South Asia. The purdah garment is the same as a burqa, or yashmak, i.e a veil to conceal the face.