Lexicographical Neighbors of Pardah
Literary usage of Pardah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bengali Book of English Verse by Theodore Douglas Dunn (1918)
"1879- The pardah Nashin. Her life is a revolving dream Of languid and sequestered
ease ; Her girdles and her fillets gleam Like changing fires on sunset ..."
2. Lieutenant-Colonel John Haughton, Commandant of the 36th Sikhs, a Hero of by Arthur Campbell Yate (1900)
"RAISING THE " pardah " OF TIRAH. " 'Tis well in peril's darkest hour to find,
Prompt for each turn of fate, some master-mind, Safe in success, ..."
3. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1881)
"This custom is called " pardah," and it has spread beyond the ... Sometime*
sufferers are shut out from receiving medical aid on account of pardah. ..."
4. Life and Labour of the People of India by 'Abd Alla̲h Yu̲suf Ali̲, Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1907)
"They are in pardah, and see very few people, and none of the male sex except ...
That is the darkest side of the pardah. If you go to the richest and most ..."
5. Panjabi Sketches, by Two Friends (1899)
"Behind the pardah. — Indian Girlhood: Its Ways and Woes. ... BEHIND THE pardah "
is written in a popular style, and will be found acceptable for reading ..."
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