9th Class Social Science Clothing: A Social History Question Bank Long Answer Type - Clothing: A Social History

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    How did various people react to Mahatma Gandhi's call to wear khadi?

    Answer:

    (i) Nationalists such as Motilal Nehru a successful barrister from Allahabad gave up his expensive Western-style suits and adopted the Indian 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.


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