purdah

Also known as pardah

thumb|300px|right|Ladies of Kabul|Caubul (1848 lithograph, by [[James Rattray) showing the lifting of purdah in zenana areas – Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library.]]

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Contents

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

thumb|300px|right|Ladies of Kabul|Caubul (1848 lithograph, by [[James Rattray) showing the lifting of purdah in zenana areas – Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library.]]

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.