9th Class Social Science Clothing: A Social History Question Bank 9th CBSE Social Science Clothing: A Social History

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    Why was national dress needed to define the cultural identity?

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                    (i) A nationalist feeling swept across India by late 19th century. Indians began devising cultural symbols that would express the unity of thenation. (ii) Artists looked for a national style of act. Poets wrote national songs. Thena debate began over the design of the national flag. (iii) The search for a national dress took poets of this era to define thecultural identity of the nation in symbolic ways. (iv) The Tagore family of Bengal experimented in the 1870s with design fora national dress for both men and women in India.


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