Culture in the Vanity Bag: Being an Essay on Clothing and Adornment in Passing and Abiding India by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
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Overview: Published by Jaico Publishing House in India in 1976, this book collects Chaudhuri’s thoughts on dressing and adornment in India.
He writes, "This book, I cannot emphasise too strongly, is not a work of research or scholarship. It is primarily the expression of my interest in clothing as a form of art, and as an element in personal relations. I believe implicitly that a man who has lost interest in clothing and adornment, has also lost interest in life….this expression of the culture of a people can be as legitimate a science as zoology or botany. What I am going to offer is thus a morphological, functional, and ecological study of Indian clothing and adornment; with this important reservation that in the existing state of our knowledge of the subject, it can not be anything but an incomplete and tentative essay.
There is another aspect of this self-revealed picture of Indian clothing which as it dawned on me struck me even more forcibly. As soon as the general pattern and lines of evolution of Indian clothing had become clear to me in themselves, I could also see that these had repeated within their limits the whole pattern of the evolution of human life and culture in the country. This means that the evolution of clothing in India has been only a part of the historical evolution of the peoples of India, possessing similar features, following similar lines, and producing similar results. To be even more explicit, clothing and adornment were and continue to be as much an expression of the nature of things Indian, "rerum lndicarum natura" as any other human activity, say, politics, social and economic life, culture as embodied in literature or art could be."
Genre: Non-Fiction | History and Culture
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