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The Indian Encyclopaedia describes a '''Gosha''' or a '''Gosha woman''' as one who follows the Islamic law of concealing herself from the sight of men, except certain close relatives. It considers it a word derived from the [[Hindustani language]],<ref name="Kapoor2002">{{cite book|first1=Subodh |last1=Kapoor|title=The Indian Encyclopaedia: Gautami Ganga -Himmat Bahadur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nt4nbp1VIhsC&pg=PA2674|accessdate=9 February 2012|year=2002|publisher=Cosmo Publications|isbn=978-81-7755-266-9|pages=2674–}}</ref> it is a synonym for women kept in [[purdah]], used in southern [[India]].<ref name="Denning1902">{{cite book|first=Margaret Beahm |last=Denning |author-link1=Margaret B. Denning|title=Mosaics from India: talks about India, its peoples, religions and customs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NeVGAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=17 February 2012|year=1902|publisher=Fleming H. Revell Company |location=New York}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

==Photographs==
The [[Supreme Court of India]] rejected a petition challenging the [[Madras High Court]]'s dismissal of a petition on September 7, 2006, a few days prior to the [[Madurai]] Central by-election which sought seeking for issuance of [[mandamus|writ of mandamus]] forbearing the [[Election Commission of India]] "from in any way publishing or releasing the photographs of the women particularly the Muslim Gosha women in the eligible voter's list in respect of all the Constituencies in the State of [[Tamil Nadu]] particularly for the ensuring bye-election to Madurai Central Assembly Constituency."<ref name="Indiankanoon">{{cite web|url=http://indiankanoon.org/doc/763216/?type=print|title=M.Ajmal Khan vs The Election Commission Of India on 7 September 2006|last=Shah |first=A. P.|author2=Chandru K.|date=2006-09-07|work=indiankanoon.org/|accessdate=8 February 2012}}</ref> The court observed that "electoral rolls with photographs cannot be opposed on the grounds that they hurt religious sentiments."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/don-t-vote-if-can-t-shed-i-burqa-/i-sc-tells-muslim-women_598306.html|title=Don't vote if can't shed burqa, SC tells Muslim women|date=2010-01-23|work=zeenews.india.com/|publisher=Zee News Limited|accessdate=8 February 2012|location=[[Noida]]}}</ref>

===Exemption from the Administrator of Lakshadweep Islands===
The Administrator of [[Lakshadweep]] Islands exempts Gosha women from submitting photographs for entry permits. The islands are a [[Union territory]] of India, they are a restricted area wherein Indian citizens "...not a native of these islands, shall have to obtain a permit in the Prescribed Form from the Competent authority, for entering into and residing in these islands.<ref name="lakshadweep">{{cite web|url=http://lakshadweep.nic.in/depts/revenue/entry_permits.htm|title=RESTRICTION ON ENTRY AND RESIDENCE APPLICATION FORMS FOR PERMIT/PERMISSION|work=lakshadweep.nic.in/depts/revenue/index.htm|publisher=Administrator, Union Territory of Lakshadweep|accessdate=8 February 2012|location=Lakshadweep|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224123645/http://lakshadweep.nic.in/depts/revenue/entry_permits.htm|archivedate=24 February 2015}}</ref>

==Medical needs==
{{See also|Zenana mission}}
''History of Deccan'' mentions that until lady doctors arrived in 1884, gosha women of [[Hyderabad State]] were at the mercy of unqualified health practitioners.<ref name="E">{{cite book|author=Gribble JD E|title=history of the decan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a4SUL5ajo44C&pg=PA257|accessdate=9 February 2012|publisher=Mittal Publications|pages=257–|id=GGKEY:KPSWZE0BG05}}</ref> The Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children of [[Chennai]] was earlier called The Victoria Caste and Gosha Hospital.<ref name="Puranik1954">{{cite book|first1=G. K. |last1=Puranik|title=Rural India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S-kcAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=9 February 2012|year=1954|publisher=R. G. Gupta}}</ref> Van Hollen sees purdah as an Orientalist "trope", which constructs the colonised other to legitimise colonial authority, she quotes Lal in pointing the contradiction in British policy, colonial discourse represented purdah as a sign of India's barbarism yet it accommodated it, as seen in the opening of the Gosha hospital.<ref name="Hollen2003">{{cite book|first1=Cecilia Coale Van |last1=Hollen|title=Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_2pMrcxDvj8C&pg=PA44|accessdate=17 February 2012|year=2003|publisher=Zubaan|isbn=978-81-86706-72-5|pages=44–}}</ref>

==Government Museum, Chennai==
The [[Government Museum, Chennai]] had at one time provided a time slot for Gosha women. During such a time no male visitors were allowed.<ref name="Ltd2004">{{cite book|author=South Indian Railway Co., Ltd|title=Illustrated guide to the South Indian Railway (Incorporated in England): including the Tanjore District Board, Pondicherry, Peralam-Karaikkal, Travancore State, Cochin State, Coimbatore District Board, Tinnevelly-Tiruchendur, and the Nilgiri Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SzWvq8EYBwUC&pg=PA21|accessdate=17 February 2012|date=1 August 2004|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-1889-3|pages=21–}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Sex segregation]]
* [[Gender segregation and Islam]]
* [[Zenana]]

==References==
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[[Category:Women in India]]
[[Category:Purdah]]
[[Category:Islam in India]]

Gosha woman - Revision history

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