The purdah system unfits them for independence.

They disinfected houses and burnt rags and even purdah women were not allowed to die in bosom of family.

Miss Maya Das longs to turn her abounding energy into efforts toward purdah parties and lectures for the shut-in women of the higher classes, believing that in this way the Association can both bring new interests into narrow lives, and can also gain the help and financial support of these bored women of wealth toward work among the poor.