Word: purdah
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Chundrigar, a devout Moslem lawyer who keeps his wife in purdah, is the leader of the once powerful Moslem League, which had been reduced to near impotence when Mirza drew many of its former supporters into his Republican Party. As Prime Minister, Chundrigar will be dependent on the votes of the Republicans and the will of the President. He will also serve the purpose of keeping out of office Suhrawardy, the only man with a popular following that rivals Mirza...
...free election. By the time the polls closed last week, 51% of India's 193 million voters had turned out. This time, moreover, the percentage of women voters was far higher than it was in the general election of 1952. In Allahabad and other Moslem centers, women in purdah not only queued up outside voting booths but docilely permitted special investigators to peek under their veils to make sure that no male ringers were sneaking in. The only serious sex-linked problem, in fact, arose in Lucknow, where some of the city's 4,000 eunuchs threw polling...
Belgrave's wife, to the horror of Bahrein's purdah-loving elders but with a behind-the-scenes assist from Sheik Hamed's No. i wife, won permission to open a school for girls. In a series of bitter struggles with the usurers and dhow owners, who had long run the Bahrein waterfront, Belgrave reorganized the pearl-diving industry and gradually won Bahrein a lucrative reputation as the only honest transshipment port in the Middle East...
...Moonsammy banana farm near Sea Cow Lake. In nearby Durban, where many of South Africa's 365,000 Indians rub shoulders with the West, young Indian girls are often permitted to dance and date but Farmer Moonsammy kept his wife and five daughters always in the bondage of purdah, the second-rate status of women in the land of his ancestors. The five girls, ranging in age from 26 to 14, worked hard all day in their father's fields, and at the end of each long day they were forced to wait patiently while the menfolk finished...
...mourned her husband, Brigadier Jabar Singh. The brigadier had been a man who played polo, spoke English with an Oxford accent and administered the Maharajah of Jodhpur's estates and palaces; but Sugan, married to him for 27 years, had chosen to remain in the veiled seclusion of purdah. When the brigadier died, Sugan put on her wedding dress of red silk, threaded with gold, and tied jasmine and gold ornaments into her black and lustrous hair...