Word: khaddar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usually clad only in a loin cloth and a sash, was easily the dominant figure of the last Indian National Congress. The Occidental press was poorly represented, and only recently* has the picturesque story of the Congress come to light. It sat in a great tent of hand-woven khaddar, at Gauhati, in remote Upper India. Great palms and forest trees canopied the Congress tent, the 5,000 delegates and spectators slept in the open or in bamboo huts along the shores of the broad Brahmaputra dotted with tiny islands. The delegates have no official status, but theirs...
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