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khaddar|ˈkædə(r)|
Also khadder, khadi.
[Hindī.]
Indian home-spun cotton cloth.
1921Glasgow Herald 27 Dec. 7 This tent will be made of hand-spun ‘khadder’. 1922Ibid. 22 Dec. 9 Delegates are already pouring into Neaya for the session of Congress that opens on December 26, and a huge marquee of khaddar (homespun) material has been erected. 1923Daily Mail 23 Feb. 8 No person wearing clothes other than those made from ‘Khadder’—Mr. Gandhi's own favourite brand of hand-woven cloth—is tolerated in the ‘presence’. 1924C. D. Groth tr. Rolland's Mahatma Gandhi 72 Tagore, too, praised this khaddar, or khadi. 1925E. S. Jones Christ of Indian Road v. 116 The whole city was dressed in white home-spun khaddar, the sign of the Nationalist. 1936J. Nehru Autobiogr. xv. 106 Khadi clothes and third-class railway travelling demand little money. 1960Koestler Lotus & Robot 278 The produce of the cotton mills is cheaper than homespun khadi. 1971Illustr. Weekly India 18 Apr. 6 He alighted, this huge khadder-clad mountain of a man, his eyes alert and smiling. 1974New Yorker 3 June 28/2 Gandhi called on all Indians..to raise cotton and to spin and weave it, so that there would be no shortage of khadi, or homespun cloth. 1975Bangladesh Times 22 July 5/2 There may be easily manageable industries such as handloom, Khadi, village industries, handicrafts, [etc.]. |