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khaddar

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khad·dar  (kädr)
n.
A coarse homespun cloth made in India.
[Hindi khdar, probably ultimately of Dravidian origin; akin to Telugu kauv, upper garment.]
khaddar [ˈkɑːdə], khadi [ˈkɑːdɪ]
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a cotton cloth of plain weave, produced in India
[from Hindi khādar]
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Noun1.khaddar - a coarse homespun cotton cloth made in India
khadi
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"


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Beyond colonialism and nationalism. (Review Essay) by Khadder, Moncef / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
To be sure, the likes of Ruskin, Tolstoy, and Annie Besant for a time found an Oriental echo in Gandhi, Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and Ananda Coomaraswami, but in today's industrialized (and nuclear-armed) Asia, Gandhi's khaddar and ahimsa (homespun and non-violence) are as dead as the dodo.
"Orientalism," the evolution of a concept by McInnes, Neil / The National Interest
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