• Dr. Poonam Wadhwa

Purdah, an instrument of masculine effort for restricting and limiting the role of women in society is a violation of the basic rights, freedom and dignity of women. Imtiaz Dharker considers Purdah not only a concealing garment but a state of mind which works as suppression and deadlock to the intellectual awakening and growth of women. Although Dharker’s poetry is a confluence of three cultures, but her roots being in Muslim culture her collection of poems Purdah I and Purdah II comes out as a revolt against Purdah which has socio-cultural and social religious associations mainly for Muslim women and also for some Hindu women in the Northern part of India. Dharker considers Purdah system making women feel alienated from their true self. Her poems enable us realise the tragic story behind and beyond the veils.

Purdah, State of mind, Shame, Sin, Woman as object, Coffin, Coils of conventional Patriarchy, Consciously writing

"VEIL - A STATE OF MIND: IMTIAZ DHARKER’S PURDAH-I AND PURDAH-II", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.816-824, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR180Z015.pdf

"VEIL - A STATE OF MIND: IMTIAZ DHARKER’S PURDAH-I AND PURDAH-II", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp816-824, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR180Z015.pdf