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Word: sherwani (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respected man at the London conference last week was Jawaharlal Nehru, who had spent 14 years of his life in British jails; for this he held no grudge against Britain, but for his lifelong struggle he certainly had no repentance. Nehru, on arriving in London, changed his long black sherwani for a Savile Row suit. He looked well in a Homburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH COMMONWEALTH: Loose Connection | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...many a plush hotel where the British dinner jacket once gave the evening scene the aspect of a penguins' conclave, the dhoti (loin cloth), sherwani (tunic), jibba (smock) and achkan (long coat) now held pride of place. Rohini Kumar Chowdhry, Assam's long-haired, wild-eyed member of the Constituent Assembly, demanded a special clause in the new Constitution's bill of rights to forbid any hotel displaying "Evening Clothes Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Back of the Dinner Jacket | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...presiding officer was neither shocked nor carried away by the incendiary speeches. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, clad in black angora cap, a long black sherwani (tunic), and tight-fitting black churidar on his wire-thin legs, smiled his ice-cold smile. He was at the peak of his power. He was the man who might say whether one-fifth of the world's people would be free. His 5 ft. 11 in. and 119 Ibs. stood between India and independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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