Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s2.t1.85

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⁴ Compare for instance the description of Rajput dress in Tod, II, 759. Compare also Tod's description of dress in Jaisalmer State. 'The dress of the Bhattis consists of a Jama or tunic of white cloth or chintz reaching to the knee; the kamarband, or ceinture, tied so high as to present no appearance of waist; trousers very loose, and in many folds, drawn tight at the ankle, and a turban, generally of a scarlet colour, rising canonically full a foot from the head. A dagger is stuck in the waist-band; a shield is suspended by a thong of deer-skin from the left shoulder, and the sword is girt by a belt of the same material'. Vide II, 1253-4. Compare also Grierson, Bihar Peasant Life, 143-5 for some old terms for dresses and dresses still in vogue.