Definition of Zenana. Meaning of Zenana. Synonyms of Zenana

- Zenana (Persian: زنانه, Urdu: زنانہ, Bengali: জেনানা, Hindi: ज़नाना) literally meaning "of the women" or "pertaining to women", in the Persian language...
- The zenana missions were outreach programmes established in British India with the aim of converting women to Christianity. From the mid 19th century,...
- The Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (CEZMS; founded 1880), also known as the Church of England Zenana Mission, was a British Anglican missionary...
- the class of women ****igned to protect the emperor and inhabitants of the zenana. Because the women of the Mughal court lived sequestered under purdah, the...
- has the same meaning as the Turkish word seraglio and the Persian word zenana. It is also similar to the Sanskrit word anthapura, meaning ‘the inner apartment’...
- administrator who launched the female education initiative in India known as the Zenana Missions. He has been credited with introducing the rickshaw to India. Fordyce...
- Ladies of Caubul (1848 lithograph, by James Rattray) showing the lifting of purdah in zenana areas – Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library....
- andaruni (Persian: اندرونی; meaning inside), and in the Indian subcontinent as zenana (Urdu: زنانہ). Although the institution has experienced a sharp decline...
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- elite women who so-far lived an entirely secluded private life in the zenanas of his palace; captured in a western artificial setting, consisting of...