Ghoonghat

Ghoonghat

Ghoonghat or Ghunghat is a Hindi word which describes a type of hijab worn by Indian women to cover their head.

Indian women dressed unisex before the advent of Islam; that is they wore an unstiched cloth (called Sari) in a loincloth fashion as men. The Sari grew in length with an end which is used to cover the bosom and then the head and face. This allowed women to work in the fields beside men or even ride a horse like men. In Buddhist cave paintings in India or in Sri Lnka such as Siguria, Indian women often went around wearing just pieces of jewellery and nothing else.

The ghunghat was and is still a form of veiling of women, still practiced in rural parts of Northern India and is a symbol inequality of sexes prevalent in Indian society introduced and enforced by the muslim rulers.


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