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Sociology Syllabus Topic-Paper-2 [Impact of Colonial rule on Indian Society] {Social reforms}
Paper-2 [Religion and Society] {Problems of religious minorities,Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour}
Paper-2 [Challenges of Social transformation] { religious revivalism. deprivation and inequalities}


Hijab and chadar are garments used by women to cover their head and face partially, and other parts of their body in varying degrees, as part of the purdah system in public spaces. The burqa is one step forward — it shrouds the entire physique of a woman, with two netted slits for eyes


Ambedkar view - Purdah deprives Muslim women of mental and moral nourishment. Being deprived of a healthy social life, the process of moral degeneration must and does set in,” Ambedkar wrote. He said the practice was “responsible for the social segregation of Hindus from Muslims, which is the bane of public life in India. Hindus are right when they say that it is not possible to establish social contact between Hindus and Muslims because such contact can only mean contact between women from one side and men from the other”.

Not that purdah and the evils consequent thereon are not to be found among certain sections of the Hindus in certain parts of the country. But the point of distinction is that among the Muslims, purdah has a religious sanctity which it has not with the Hindus and can only be removed by facing the inevitable conflict between religious injunctions and social needs”.

Gandhi ji's view- “The real meaning of purdah is that you should guard against lust, anger and attachment. This outward purdah is mere hypocrisy”.. While speaking at Bhatialpur on January 14, 1947, he said that “it should be scrapped. The system kept women in complete darkness in every respect. …If the darkness of their mind was not removed they could not do anything with outward purdah”. The next day, at Narayanpur, he said it was the “duty of Hindu women to befriend their Muslim sisters and rescue them from the thraldom of the purdah.”



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