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Gandhi and dress

Gandhi's reasons for the metamorphoses were contextual, psychological and assertively political for a reason ~and that reason was not to disparage Western clothing sensibilities as inferior, amoral or scandalous. Gandhi's insistence on 'Indianness' was not reflective of reverse-superiority or the 'uncivilisationalness' of the West, but in the more profound tenets of equality for all, without discrimination