On the basis of the accounts of the travellers which statement regarding the status of women is not correct?

Women were confined to their homes.

The correct answer is Option (4) → Women were confined to their homes.

Option 1- Prevalence of the practice of sati.
Option 2- They worked as agricultural and non-agricultural workers
Option 3- Women from merchant families participated in commercial activities.
Option 4- Women were confined to their homes. (INCORRECT)

Contemporary European travellers and writers often highlighted the treatment of women as a crucial marker of difference between Western and Eastern societies. Not surprisingly, Bernier chose the practice of sati for detailed description. He noted that while some women seemed to embrace death cheerfully, others were forced to die. However, women’s lives revolved around much else besides the practice of sati. Their labour was crucial in both agricultural and non-agricultural production. Women from merchant families participated in commercial activities, sometimes even taking mercantile disputes to the court of law. It therefore seems unlikely that women were confined to the private spaces of their homes.