Question

How did Mahatma Gandhi change his attire with his change in status

Answer 1

Dear Student,

Mahatma Gandhi’s experiments with clothing revealed his changing attitudes to dress in the Indian subcontinent.

a. He usually wore a shirt with a dhoti or pyjama and sometimes a coat – as a boy from a Gujarati ‘Bania family’.
b. In London while studying law and also while practicing law in Johannesburg, South Africa, he wore western clothes.
c. In Durban in 1913, Gandhi 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.
d. On his return to India in 1915, he decided to dress like a Kathiawadi peasant.
e. In 1921, he adopted the short dhoti, the form of dress he wore until his death. This he did as he felt it was his duty to the poor.

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