text: " This sentiment is often repeated in the course of the narrative and any one who has read in the curious work of Mrs Meer Hassan Ali quoted above an account of the strict domestic seclusion in which Moslem females having any pretensions to rank or even respectability are constantly retained in India will not be surprised at the frequent expression of repugnance whenever the writer sees women engaged in any public or out-of-doors occupation--a custom so abhorrent to Oriental and above all to Indian ideas