(i) A nationalist feeling swept across India by the late 19th century. Indians began devising cultural symbols that would express the unity of the nation. (ii) Artists looked for a national style of art. Poets wrote national songs. Then a debate began over the design of the national flag. (iii) TheRead more
(i) A nationalist feeling swept across India by the late 19th century. Indians began devising cultural symbols that would express the unity of the nation.
(ii) Artists looked for a national style of art. Poets wrote national songs. Then a debate began over the design of the national flag.
(iii) The search for a national dress was part of this move to define the cultural identity of the nation in symbolic ways.
(iv) The Tagore family of Bengal experimented in the 1870s with designs for a national dress for- both men and women in India.
(i) When Mahatma Gandhi returned to India, he decided to dress like a Kathiawadi peasant. (ii) So he adopted a short dhoti with a shawl, as he wanted to experiment for a month or two. (iii) But soon he saw this as his duty to the poor, and he never wore any other dress. (iv) Khadi, white and coarse,Read more
(i) When Mahatma Gandhi returned to India, he decided to dress like a Kathiawadi peasant.
(ii) So he adopted a short dhoti with a shawl, as he wanted to experiment for a month or two.
(iii) But soon he saw this as his duty to the poor, and he never wore any other dress.
(iv) Khadi, white and coarse, was to him a sign of purity, simplicity and Poverty.
(v) Wearing it also became a symbol of nationalism a rejection of Wester mill cloth.
(vI) He consciously rejected the well-known clothes of the Indian ascetic and adopted the dress of the poorest Indian.
(i) Nationalists such as Motilal Nehru, a successful barrister from Allahabad gave up his expensive Western-style suits and adopted the lndian dhoti and kurta. (ii) There were nationalists like B.R. Ambedkar who never gave up the Western-style suit. Many Dalits also wore three-piece suits, shoes andRead more
(i) Nationalists such as Motilal Nehru, a successful barrister from Allahabad gave up his expensive Western-style suits and adopted the lndian dhoti and kurta.
(ii) There were nationalists like B.R. Ambedkar who never gave up the Western-style suit. Many Dalits also wore three-piece suits, shoes and socks on all public occasions.
(iii) A woman wrote to Gandhiji from Maharashtra that she was too poor to buy khadi, so she wore a nine-yard long sari.
(iv) Other women like Sarojini Naidu and Kamala Nehru, wore coloured
saris with designs, instead of coarse, white homespun khadi.
(i) As a boy from a Gujarati bania family, he usually wore a shirt with a dhoti or pyjama and sometimes a coat. (ii) When he went to London to study law as a boy of 19 in 1888, he cut off the tuft on his head and dressed in a Western suit so that he would not be laughed at. (iii) On his return he coRead more
(i) As a boy from a Gujarati bania family, he usually wore a shirt with a dhoti or pyjama and sometimes a coat.
(ii) When he went to London to study law as a boy of 19 in 1888, he cut off the tuft on his head and dressed in a Western suit so that he would not be laughed at.
(iii) On his return he continued to wear Western suits, topped with a turban.
(iv) As a lawyer in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1890s, he still wore Western clothes.
(v) In Durban in 1913, Gandhiji first appeared in a lungi and Kurta with his head shaved as a sign of mourning to protest against the shooting of Indian coal miners.
(vi) On his return to India, he decided to dress like a Kathiawadi peasant.
(vii) In 1921, lie adopted the short dhoti., the form of dress he wore until his death.
(i) In 1905, Lord Curzon decided to divide Bengal to control the growing opposition to British rule. (ii) The Swadeshi movement developed and people were made to boycott British goods of all kinds and start their own industries for the manufacture of goods such as matchboxes and cigarettes' (iii) MaRead more
(i) In 1905, Lord Curzon decided to divide Bengal to control the growing opposition to British rule.
(ii) The Swadeshi movement developed and people were made to boycott British goods of all kinds and start their own industries for the manufacture of goods such as matchboxes and cigarettes’
(iii) Mass protests followed with people vowing to cleanse themselves of colonial rule.
(iv) The use of khadi was made a patriotic duty.
(v) Women were urged to throw, away their silk clothes and glass bangles and wear simple shell bangies.
Who made the ‘shoe-respect’ rule stricter for Indians?
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(b) Lord Dalhousie
See lessWhat was the ‘phenta’?
(c) Hat
(c) Hat
See lessWhich of the following gave women greater freedom for movement?
(c) Trousers
(c) Trousers
See lessWhat was the Indian chintzes which was within the reach of many Europeans?
(b) Cotton cloth
(b) Cotton cloth
See lessThe National woman Suffrage Association was headed by
(a) Mrs Stanton
(a) Mrs Stanton
See lessWhy was national dress needed to define the cultural identity?
(i) A nationalist feeling swept across India by the late 19th century. Indians began devising cultural symbols that would express the unity of the nation. (ii) Artists looked for a national style of art. Poets wrote national songs. Then a debate began over the design of the national flag. (iii) TheRead more
(i) A nationalist feeling swept across India by the late 19th century. Indians began devising cultural symbols that would express the unity of the nation.
See less(ii) Artists looked for a national style of art. Poets wrote national songs. Then a debate began over the design of the national flag.
(iii) The search for a national dress was part of this move to define the cultural identity of the nation in symbolic ways.
(iv) The Tagore family of Bengal experimented in the 1870s with designs for a national dress for- both men and women in India.
How did Mahatma Gandhi opt for khadi?
(i) When Mahatma Gandhi returned to India, he decided to dress like a Kathiawadi peasant. (ii) So he adopted a short dhoti with a shawl, as he wanted to experiment for a month or two. (iii) But soon he saw this as his duty to the poor, and he never wore any other dress. (iv) Khadi, white and coarse,Read more
(i) When Mahatma Gandhi returned to India, he decided to dress like a Kathiawadi peasant.
See less(ii) So he adopted a short dhoti with a shawl, as he wanted to experiment for a month or two.
(iii) But soon he saw this as his duty to the poor, and he never wore any other dress.
(iv) Khadi, white and coarse, was to him a sign of purity, simplicity and Poverty.
(v) Wearing it also became a symbol of nationalism a rejection of Wester mill cloth.
(vI) He consciously rejected the well-known clothes of the Indian ascetic and adopted the dress of the poorest Indian.
How did various people react to Mahatma Gandhi’s call to wear khadi?
(i) Nationalists such as Motilal Nehru, a successful barrister from Allahabad gave up his expensive Western-style suits and adopted the lndian dhoti and kurta. (ii) There were nationalists like B.R. Ambedkar who never gave up the Western-style suit. Many Dalits also wore three-piece suits, shoes andRead more
(i) Nationalists such as Motilal Nehru, a successful barrister from Allahabad gave up his expensive Western-style suits and adopted the lndian dhoti and kurta.
See less(ii) There were nationalists like B.R. Ambedkar who never gave up the Western-style suit. Many Dalits also wore three-piece suits, shoes and socks on all public occasions.
(iii) A woman wrote to Gandhiji from Maharashtra that she was too poor to buy khadi, so she wore a nine-yard long sari.
(iv) Other women like Sarojini Naidu and Kamala Nehru, wore coloured
saris with designs, instead of coarse, white homespun khadi.
How did Mahatma Gandhi change his attire with change in his status?
(i) As a boy from a Gujarati bania family, he usually wore a shirt with a dhoti or pyjama and sometimes a coat. (ii) When he went to London to study law as a boy of 19 in 1888, he cut off the tuft on his head and dressed in a Western suit so that he would not be laughed at. (iii) On his return he coRead more
(i) As a boy from a Gujarati bania family, he usually wore a shirt with a dhoti or pyjama and sometimes a coat.
See less(ii) When he went to London to study law as a boy of 19 in 1888, he cut off the tuft on his head and dressed in a Western suit so that he would not be laughed at.
(iii) On his return he continued to wear Western suits, topped with a turban.
(iv) As a lawyer in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1890s, he still wore Western clothes.
(v) In Durban in 1913, Gandhiji first appeared in a lungi and Kurta with his head shaved as a sign of mourning to protest against the shooting of Indian coal miners.
(vi) On his return to India, he decided to dress like a Kathiawadi peasant.
(vii) In 1921, lie adopted the short dhoti., the form of dress he wore until his death.
why did the Indians boycott mill-made cloth and adopt khadi?
(i) In 1905, Lord Curzon decided to divide Bengal to control the growing opposition to British rule. (ii) The Swadeshi movement developed and people were made to boycott British goods of all kinds and start their own industries for the manufacture of goods such as matchboxes and cigarettes' (iii) MaRead more
(i) In 1905, Lord Curzon decided to divide Bengal to control the growing opposition to British rule.
See less(ii) The Swadeshi movement developed and people were made to boycott British goods of all kinds and start their own industries for the manufacture of goods such as matchboxes and cigarettes’
(iii) Mass protests followed with people vowing to cleanse themselves of colonial rule.
(iv) The use of khadi was made a patriotic duty.
(v) Women were urged to throw, away their silk clothes and glass bangles and wear simple shell bangies.