Aligarh and Women's education: a brief overview | Ishrat Mushtaq and Sajad (...)
Mainstream Mainstream, VOL LIX No 4, New Delhi, January 9, 2021 Aligarh and Women’s education: a brief overview | Ishrat Mushtaq and Sajad Hassan Khan Saturday 9 January 2021 by Ishrat Mushtaq and Sajad Hassan Khan * Women’s education in nineteenth-century India was no easy task. In the case of Muslim women, the task was even more difficult due to their triply marginal identity: as colonial subjects, as women, and as Muslims. Not only did the custom of purdah added to their seclusion from the social and cultural changes, their men hated everything about the western cultural influence (be...
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