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The Lives of the Gosha Muhammadan Women in Triplicane: Circa 1914

This episode provides a vivid and intimate details of the lives of Muslim women in Triplicane in 1914. It is a rather depressing and morose picture of the total absence of freedom and even the small of joys that these women are denied.

Madras

The Life of Muslim Women in Triplicane in 1914: Extracts from a European’s Diary

Lady Lawley, wife of Arthur Lawley, the then Governor of Madras, in her interesting work titled "Southern India," narrates a detailed and vivid account of the plight and lives of Muslim women living in Triplicane, Chennai. The work was published in 1914 and is a valuable document of history and soci