Existing Member?

    Crossroads

    My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

    However, while in Buddhist Ladakh women have always enjoyed a status equal with men, in the orthodox Muslim Balti community women have had little control over the society, household or even herself. And during those long years after the partition when the world had forgotten Turtuk and its neighbours, the status of women only diminished in the impoverished and isolated society.

    INDIA | Friday, 5 July 2013 | Views [316] | View Larger Image

    However, while in Buddhist Ladakh women have always enjoyed a status equal with men, in the orthodox Muslim Balti community women have had little control over the society, household or even herself. And during those long years after the partition when the world had forgotten Turtuk and its neighbours, the status of women only diminished in the impoverished and isolated society.


    < previous    		3 of 5
    next >

    Photo Galleries

    Where I've been

    My trip journals