(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.