NCERT Important Questions Class 9 Social Science History
Important NCERT Extra Questions
Clothing: A Social History,
NCERT Book Extra Questions for Session 2022-2023
CBSE Board and UP Board Others state Board
How did various people react to Mahatma Gandhi’s call to wear khadi?
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(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.