Question

Select the incorrect statements.

• A. Polygyny is a practice where a man can marry more than one woman.
• B. Non-Muslims had to pay a special tax.
• C. Hindu women had to wear a burka.
• D. Sati was practised by Muslim widows.

Answer 1

Answer: (C), (D)

The correct options are
C Hindu women had to wear a burka.
D Sati was practised by Muslim widows.

Muslim women were denied education, confined to their house, mandated to wear a Burka and look after the household. The practise of Sati, i.e., the burning of a married woman on the pyre of her dead husband was followed in some Hindu societies.