![]() ![]() ![]() Punjabi woman in ‘purdah’ looking down her ‘jharokha’ window in Lahore. He started this project on his Instagram handle last year in October with the picture of a Punjabi woman in ‘purdah’ looking down her ‘jharokha’ window in Lahore from John Lockwood Kipling’s album. ![]() This realisation and curiosity to know more about Punjabi women prompted him to undertake the project ‘The Lost Heer’. “During one such volunteer project on recording stories of Partition, I realised that there isn’t enough recorded history on women from colonial Punjab and if there is, it is not part of the discourse,” Singh says. Singh, born and brought-up in Delhi, is fond of collecting old magazines and books on India. Harleen Singh, 23, a Toronto-based engineer, has found his passion in introducing such Punjabi women of pre-Partition Punjab to the world. Syeda Muhammadi Begum was the first woman editor in Punjab who published a women’s weekly newspaper from Lahore ‘Tehzeeb-i-Niswan, writes Harleen Singh in an Instagram post with the picture of Syeda. Syeda Muhammadi Begum, Sarla Thakral, Hardevi Roshan Lal and Miss Sarda are just few women achievers from pre-Partition Punjab, which at least Punjabis should be familiar with but these names are lost in the records of not just the colonial era but also in the surnames of their husbands.
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