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• n  a state of social isolation
• n  the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded
• n  a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers

• In the 1920s, oriental potentates began ordering their Rolls-Royces with smoke-blackened windows so that their wives could ride comfortably "in purdah"screened off from the.
• Also in the house are three related women whose lives mirror the tottering arc of recent Pakistani history from partition to the bruised Bhutto years, caught between purdah and .
• She started an lite girls' school, correctly surmising that it would help end the practice of purdah, and entered politics as a passionate opponent of Prime Minister Jawaharlal .

• solitude
• sex segregation

News & Articles

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• Rapists’ Wives Also Screwed in India
  In addition to ending the life of their 23-year-old victim, the men who gang-raped a student on a bus in New Delhi are ruining their wives' lives, The Wall Street Journal reports. Punita Devi, the arranged wife of one bus-rape convict, is from a village that practices purdah, keeping women ... More »        
  Sept. 24, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Eamonn McCann in The Guardian
  Eamonn McCann, chairman of the Bloody Sunday Trust, said: "If this report is presented after the election is declared it will be put into purdah. It's going to be a huge report. The reason the inquiry took so long is that unlike almost every other...
• John Birt in guardian.co.uk
  I haven't operated in complete purdah,Lord Birt said.
• Frances Crook in Independent
  Frances Crook, director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "This is bizarre. There is an election happening soon, but it hasn't been called yet and as far as I know no one has gone into purdah. The more informed we are, the more we can...