A History of Agriculture in India v2.c59.s6: Dress
A History of Agriculture in India v2.c59.s6
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v2.c59.s6.1
For their head-dress, the Sultans of Delhi usually wore a kulāh or the tall Tartar cap. Jalāl-ud-dīn is reported to have worn a turban. For coating they used tight-fitting tunics or qaba, made of muslin or fine wool. In cold weather, the Sultan wore an overcoat over the tunic, called the dagla, which was like a dressing gown stuffed with carded cotton. The upper-country Brahman put a caste-mark (tilaka) on his forehead and a dhoti. In Gujarat, some people used a red handkerchief as head-dress. Some of the Gujarati Banias wore long shirts of silk or cotton and short coats of silk. The Brahmans of Gujarat wore a dhoti and usually went bare above the waist.
v2.c59.s6.2
Woman’s garments were of two varieties. One consisted of a long chadar or fine sheet of muslin like the modern sari, and a bodice with short sleeves, going down the back to the waist, with an angiya or brassière of a dark colour. The other variety, which was more popular in the doab, consisted of a lahanga or a long and very loose skirt, a chola and an angiya with a dopatta or a long scarf which was used to cover the head. Ladies of Gujarat wore leather shoes with gold trimmings. For toilet women used antimony for the eyes, vermilion for marking the parting of the hair, musk for the breast, and a black powder for the eye-brows; henna (Lawsonia inermis) was used for dyeing hands and feet in summer.