Memories Nostalgia - Woman Portrait Rajasthani India Udaipur

by Sue Jacobi

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Memories Nostalgia - Woman Portrait Rajasthani India Udaipur

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Sue Jacobi

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Photograph - Fine Art Photography - Digital Art

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Memories Nostalgia - Woman Portrait Rajasthani India Udaipur.
At a roadside tea stall, on a quaint narrow cobblestoned street along the shores of Lake Pichola in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, I met Kantabai. She runs the tea stall. Her customers are treated to not just a steaming hot cup of sweet chai tea, but also a myriad of colourful nostalgic memories and stories from her childhood days in a Rajasthani village, and how she � along with her parents - migrated to the city to earn a living. She had a real way with words, and her generous gestures enriched her tales. I found her facial expressions fascinating, and she had such charisma! Wonderful nostalgic memories and stories to carry back home, from my vacation there!
Kantabai was dressed in the traditional Rajasthani way. The attire of Rajasthani women are very much focussed on colorfulness. The seasons, emotions, moods as well as status of people are displayed by the costumes of females of Rajasthan.
The everyday costume worn by Rajasthani women are very unique to the Indian State of Rajasthan. Most commonly, it consists of an upper garment called a kurti, kanchali or puthia, while the lower garment comprises of skirt or ghaghra. The third component is a veil which is draped around the skirt from lower side to upper part of the body. A number of additions and variations exist in different communities, depending, however, on the social position of the wearer. But these 3 items of clothing are usually included in the costume which is generally worn by Rajasthani women even today.
The attire of women in Rajasthan indicate their social status too. For instance, in the old days, the Rajput (royal) females who belonged to the affluent social order mainly followed the parda system. Here the women were restricted in their movement and were not allowed to show off much. Their dressy clothes were kept in private women's quarters where the women were decorated elaborately without any limitation. The female ghagras were very short displaying the exquisite leg ornaments, and they are even now displayed in the paintings from those days. But now as this parda system is becoming out-dated, the Rajasthani women's clothes are seeing a lot of transformation. The length of the ghagras (skirts) has been increased, out of a sense of modesty, to hide the legs and feet. Now days the Rajput ghagra trails all over the ground, making the women appear more beautiful and lavish. Women who work in fields, wear ghagras which stop 10cm above their ankles. Many times they even wear ankle and leg bracelets, not only for the adornment, but also for protecting the women against bites and brambles when they walk down the fields.
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