@bennedose
The idea is there in Mahabharata and certainly well attested by Gupta period. This was before Islam was born. Idea of covering faces by newly married bride was original to North.
Honor killing is not norm. That is like arguing that where did idea of rapes originate? Patriarchial culture has always revolved around chastity of women. You are just one of the westernized idiots writing nonsense. Read Ramayana or some other old brahmanic texts. A country where Sahagaman was practised is now producing idiots who ask that how honor is related to behaviour of women?
Among brahmanic circles in Pre Gupta age.
Males can be painted nude but I think that female nudity was stopped from arts due to Islam.
You have a view which degraded sexologists have fed you, that ancient India was modern day west with free sex. This is BS but since you represent majority, one can not do much.