Black and white lantern slide showing a group of women of a high caste in Harkua village in the Gopalganj district of Bihar, India. Three women stand and two crouch on the ground. All wear saris and conspicuous jewellery. The caste system in India was a method of dividing up Hindu society according to role. If these women are high caste, they may be members of the Brahmin group, the priest or scholar class. The caption to the slide reads: "High caste women in zenana at Harkua village in Gopalganj." A zenana (literally meaning "pertaining to women") was the part of the household reserved for women in Muslim south Asian households. These zenanas would be visited by the wives of missionaries as part of mission work. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
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lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm lantern slides photographs
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