Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in IndiaIn this path-breaking and entertaining study, the author concentrates on the problem of what to wear rather than describing what is worn. She demonstrates how different individuals and groups have used clothes to assert power, challenge authority, define or conceal identity, and instigate or prevent social change at various levels of Indian society from the village to the nation. |
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Gandhi and the Recreation of Indian Dress | 62 |
Is Khadi the Solution? | 94 |
Questions of Dress in a Gujarati Village | 129 |
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