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more-inThe first and only ladies’ day at the annual Numaish on Friday saw poor footfalls with ticket sales being just a little over 5,000. “While ladies’ day is a tradition, it is seen that families want to come here together. Women living closer to the Exhibition Grounds seem to come on ladies’ day,” an office-bearer opined. An office-bearer of the All India Industrial Exhibition Society (AIIES) attributed the low turnout to Numaish being in the initial stages this season. According to Mr.
Margam, the ladies’ day was first instituted in the 1940s by Mir Osman Ali Khan, the seventh Nizam of the earstwhile Hyderabad State, as women observed purdah..