A Glimpse Through Purdah: Asian Women : the Myth and the RealityTrentham Books, 1999 - 150 pages "The interviews with women living in Karachi, Delhi and other cities on the Subcontinent and working as teachers, or in finance, retailing and the garment industry, make illuminating reading. Interviews with Asian women in a northern English town illustrate that migration has created more new problems for Asian women than it has solved."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... tradition of ragas , whose roots can be traced back at least two thousand years , and the Muslim traditions of ghazal and quwaali are often transmitted orally as well as in written form ; the oral tradition is highly developed and ...
... tradition of ragas , whose roots can be traced back at least two thousand years , and the Muslim traditions of ghazal and quwaali are often transmitted orally as well as in written form ; the oral tradition is highly developed and ...
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... tradition of learning is long and well developed . Teachers transmitted traditions to pupils over thousands of years before any written text existed . This tradition still exists in the Muslim world , and to some extent in Judaism ...
... tradition of learning is long and well developed . Teachers transmitted traditions to pupils over thousands of years before any written text existed . This tradition still exists in the Muslim world , and to some extent in Judaism ...
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... tradition of women - only activities in the Subcontinent , the most famous being that of the Red Fort in Delhi in the Moghul era - the 16th century . Each Thursday evening women of the royal household would set out stalls of merchandise ...
... tradition of women - only activities in the Subcontinent , the most famous being that of the Red Fort in Delhi in the Moghul era - the 16th century . Each Thursday evening women of the royal household would set out stalls of merchandise ...
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A Glimpse Through Purdah: Asian Women--the Myth and the Reality Sitara Khan Affichage d'extraits - 1999 |
A Glimpse Through Purdah: Asian Women : the Myth and the Reality Sitara Khan Affichage d'extraits - 1999 |
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