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How far is it correct to say that the transition of Mohandas Gandhi into Mahatma Gandhi is evidence in the transformation of his clothing ?

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Answered by KRIT111
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it was the time transformation of mohandas to mahatma or just transformation of clothing
Answered by Bigsecret
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(i) As a boy from a Gujarati bania family, he usually wore a shirt with a dhoti or pyjama and sometimes a coat.

(ii) When he went to London to study law as a boy of 19 in 1888, he cut off the tuft on his head and dressed in a Western suit so that he would not be laughed at.

(iii) On his return, he continued to wear Western suits, topped with a turban.

(iv) As a lawyer in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1890s, he still wore Western clothes.

(v) In Durban in 1913, Gandhiji first appeared in a lungi and kurta with his head shaved as a sign of mourning to protest against the shooting of Indian coal miners.

(vi) On his return to India, he decided to dress like a Kathiawadi peasant.

vii) In 1921, he adopted the short dhoti, the form of dress he wore until his death.

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