Indian clothing before Islamic invasions

[Maira La]

What did Northern South Asians wear before Islamization? Just curious.

Looking at these terracotta engravings (below), it appears the women didn't wear much on their upper body.

What stops inhabitants of Brahmin Raj from reverting to the old ways? The concept of shame and covering up women's upper body was introduced by Muslims and Colonial era English people.. why is there so much social inertia in moving away from these non-native ways in independent Hindu Rashtra?

 

[Maira La]

How a modern Indian woman dresses:

They are so much covered up compared to the terracotta engravings displaying ancient Northern South Asian people. Strangely Hindus even adopted dupatta.

 

[Chhatrapati]

Strangely Hindus even adopted dupatta.

You sound desperate for some approval and justification of Islamic invation of India. So much that you started giving credits to everything that happened in the subcontinent to them.
Clothes, Rice farming, architecture, Music and so on. None of which is true but meh.

At topic : I guess you never heard of Utariya and what these statues represent.

 

[Maira La]

You sound desperate for some approval and justification of Islamic invation of India. So much that you started giving credits to everything that happened in the subcontinent to them.

I just find it strange that despite so much hatred, violence, genocide of Muslims in India, you rabid Hindutvadis are still unable to dissociate yourselves from so much Islamic influence in every sphere of your lives.

I am also genuinely curious about how Northern South Asians dressed up before Islamization.

 

[Chhatrapati]

I just find it strange that despite so much hatred, violence, genocide of Muslims in India, you rabid Hindutvadis are still unable to dissociate yourselves from so much Islamic influence in every sphere of your lives.

I am also genuinely curious about how Northern South Asians dressed up before Islamization.

Apply a general logic or common sense, we have cold winters, do you think women walked around bare chest at 4°C winds?

You don't need to look far, Al-Biruni wrote in detail about it. Inluding kurtas, dhottis, dhuppatta.

Nobody dissociated from Islamic history of the subcontinent in fact we are taught in detail about it in schools. They're the most recent invaders before British so it'll be as much as the British influence obviously and the Central West Asian influence is present in language certain customs. Dhuppatta ain't one of them.

 

[El Sidd]

#aliens

 

[Maira La]

Apply a general logic or common sense, we have cold winters, do you think women walked around bare chest at 4°C winds?

I'm not responsible for their lifestyle choices. Go back in time and ask them personally to dress for climate.

Also India isn't particularly known for it's arctic climate.

You don't need to look far, Al-Biruni wrote in detail about it.

Yeah Al-Biruni found Hindu women covered up in Niqab and Burqa. Cool story bro.

 

[-=virus=-]

Apply a general logic or common sense, we have cold winters, do you think women walked around bare chest at 4°C winds?

You don't need to look far, Al-Biruni wrote in detail about it. Inluding kurtas, dhottis, dhuppatta.

Nobody dissociated from Islamic history of the subcontinent in fact we are taught in detail about it in schools. They're the most recent invaders before British so it'll be as much as the British influence obviously and the Central West Asian influence is present in language certain customs. Dhuppatta ain't one of them.

let them have their fun on this forum, why do you even bother ?

As an Indian, it's best to only selectively engage with people/topics here and give the trolls and trolling a wide berth. Look at this guy's posting history, not worth your time.

 

[I.R.A]

What did Northern South Asians wear before Islamization? Just curious.

Looking at these terracotta engravings (below), it appears the women didn't wear much on their upper body.
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What stops inhabitants of Brahmin Raj from reverting to the old ways? The concept of shame and covering up women's upper body was introduced by Muslims and Colonial era English people.. why is there so much social inertia in moving away from these non-native ways in independent Hindu Rashtra?

Fashion history of india

Fashion history of india - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

Slides included in the above link are quite informative. Seems like proper bust covering started after Mughal period.

 

[Maira La]

women wore dresses like dhuppatta with sari

Okay, what's your source?

 

[Prince Kassad]

 

[Maira La]

proper bust covering started after Mughal period.

Makes sense. Brahmins even used to punish Hindu women using sari to cover breasts with the notorious Breast Tax, so there must have been tremendous non-Hindu influence for their women to start covering up the way they do presently.

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This is just an artist's imagination. Let's stick to paintings, statues or terracotta engravings from pre-Islamic invasion times.

 

[I.R.A]

Makes sense. Brahmins even used to punish Hindu women using sari to cover breasts with the notorious Breast Tax, so there must have been tremendous non-Hindu influence for their women to start covering up the way they do presently.

There is plenty of evidence to prove that women really were oppressed and are still oppressed in indian society. Back then some pervert may have thought to come up with a dress code for women, and given the superstitious, submissive and subservient nature of people, it may have become an acceptable norm for both males females.

 

[HalfMoon]

What did Northern South Asians wear before Islamization? Just curious.

Looking at these terracotta engravings (below), it appears the women didn't wear much on their upper body.
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What stops inhabitants of Brahmin Raj from reverting to the old ways? The concept of shame and covering up women's upper body was introduced by Muslims and Colonial era English people.. why is there so much social inertia in moving away from these non-native ways in independent Hindu Rashtra?

Hindus are copy cats.

See how Hindus are copying like Muslims

 

[Maula Jatt]

Hindus are copy cats.

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See how Hindus are copying like Muslims

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aren't you a Hindu too though?