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² Compare the protest of Saint Pipa (born 1425 A.D.) against the veiling of wives of a certain Raja of Toda (on the Indian frontier) named Sur Sen when they visited the saint (*Vide* Macauliffe, VI, 347). Compare for the comparative freedom of social intercourse in Gujarat, the account of Barbosa. In one place he says that the women of Rander went about during the day doing all their indoor and outdoor business ‘with their faces uncovered as among Europeans’. In Khambayat he finds that though the women observed *Pardah* they frequently visited their friends and acquaintances in luxurious coaches and were given ample freedom of social intercourse within the limits of the *Pardah*. (*Vide* Barbosa, II, 148, 141).