Gaji

Gaji (Gaji cloth) is a coarse cloth made primarily of cotton or silk that is used for native Indian dresses.[1]

Structure

Gaji was similar to khaddar, a rough, coarse material made on handloom by local Julahas (weavers) with cotton or silk. A comparable cloth was garha.[2][3] The fabric was durable and warm.[4]

Use

Because of its coarse texture, the fabric was proper in winters for poor. Men and women both were using Gaji; men wore angochha (headwear), dhoti, jacket, and blanket, and women wrapped it as sari and used in chemises.[5][4][6]

Production

The handloom cotton products, including Gaji, were produced in many parts of India; Gaji chiefly was produced in Gujarat, parts of Uttar Pradesh such as Jaunpur,[3] Bareilly[2] and Bengal.[5] Gaji weavers took a significant hit when power looms made their entry.[7]

The Gaji cloth was also one of the products produced in the Jail industry in Mewar.[8]

See also

References
  1. Sohrābjī, munshī Ḍōsābhāī (1873). A New Self-instructing Work Entitled Idiomatic Sentences, (in Urdu). Printed at the "Reporters' Press," by Merwanjee Nowrojee, Daboo. p. 426.
  2. Nevill, H. R. (1911). Bareilly - A Gazetteer. p. 66.
  3. H.R. Nevill (1908). Jaunpur: a Gazetteer being volume XXVIII of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Allahabad, Superintendent Government Press. p. 282.
  4. O’malley, L. s s (1906). Bengal District Gazetteers Gaya. p. 179.
  5. O’Malley, Lewis Sydney Steward (1912). Bengal District Gazetteer : Gaya. Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, Calcutta. p. 22.
  6. Luard, C. E. (1864). Eastern States Gazetteers (bundelkhand). p. 395.
  7. PAGE 137 Competition of powerlooms has, therefore, resulted in the reduction of the remuneration of gaji weavers. Wealth of Gujarat Anantray Bhagwanji Trivedi · 1943
  8. Shore, R. (1909). Medico Topographical Account Of Mewar. p. 20.
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