Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s1.43

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c7.s1.43

¹ Compare the opinion of F.W. Thomas, 72. ‘The seclusion of women has been copied from the Muhammadans, but only by the richer classes. Among the poor it is quite unknown’. Compare Abu’l Fazl. A.A., II, 182. ‘Except when the wife is barren, the husband (among Hindu masses) does not marry again. Similarly a man does not marry when he is past fifty years of age’.

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