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Ghagra choli. Ghagra choli (also known as lehenga choli and chaniya choli) is a type of ethnic clothing for women from the India, notably in the Indian states of Rajasthan, [1][2] Gujarat, [3] Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir. In Punjab, the lehenga is traditionally worn ...
Bihari cuisine is eaten mainly in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, as well as in the places where people originating from the state of Bihar have settled: Jharkhand, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mauritius, South Africa, Fiji, some cities of Pakistan, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Jamaica, and the Caribbean.
Country. India. Registered. 21 September 2006. Material. A traditional textile fabric of simplest of stitches, with any fabrics and also old pieces of cloth. The Sujani embroidery work of Bihar, is a textile expressive art product, given protection under the GI registration act. It is usually a quilt or bed spread, which was earlier made of old ...
A sari (sometimes also saree [1] or sadi) [note 1] is a women's garment from the Indian subcontinent. [2] It consists of an un-stitched stretch of woven fabric arranged over the body as a robe, with one end attached to the waist, while the other end rests over one shoulder as a stole, [3] sometimes baring a part of the midriff.
A group of High caste Bihari women in Gopalganj district (1915) A man from Bihar, attending Kumbh Mela. Agriculture workers in Gopalganj, ca. 1915. The traditional dress of Bihari people includes Dhoti and Chapkan ( Angarkha ) [ 25 ] [ 26 ] or Kurta (replacing the older chapkan which is a robe fastened on the right or on the left) [ 26 ] for ...
Clothing in India varies with the different ethnicities, geography, climate, and cultural traditions of the people of each region of India. Historically, clothing has evolved from simple garments like kaupina, langota, achkan, lungi, sari, to perform rituals and dances. In urban areas, western clothing is common and uniformly worn by people of ...
Bihar (/ bɪˈhɑːr /; Hindi: [bɪˈɦaːr] ⓘ) is a state in Eastern India. It is the third largest state by population, the 12th largest by area, and the 15th largest by GDP in 2021. [11][12][13] Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Bengal to the east, and Jharkhand to the south.
Tokyo National Museum. History of clothing in the Indian subcontinent can be traced to the Indus Valley civilization or earlier. Indians have mainly worn clothing made up of locally grown cotton. India was one of the first places where cotton was cultivated and used even as early as 2500 BCE during the Harappan era.