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5 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

I've seen a few paintings from way back explicitly mentioning juts as the subjects, and they were all dressed like this.

I've read numerous gazetteers from the 19th and 20th century that mention unbleached Kurta & chaddar as main dress and a white sheet for summers (in relation to Jats). They also specify the colours worn by different communities and religions (e.g. Hindus refrained from Green and  Sikhs preferred blue). 

This is from Malva region 1883, where Panjabis co-resided with Bagris. 

Rural communities dressed similar. This is from the Tarkhan community of Panjab.

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22 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

Might as well do it now. All you juts, this is how your recent ancestors really dressed - the saucy sods! Probably why dasmesh pita brought kasheras in! lol

 

Found some information on this dress. It's called a "Janghia" and it wasn't the main dress. But it was worn during physical-work by some, the dhoti or Chaddra was still the main garment. Once they became baptised into Sikhi, it was replaced with a Kachera. 

 

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1 minute ago, 5aaban said:

I've read numerous gazetteers from the 19th and 20th century that mention unbleached Kurta & chaddar as main dress and a white sheet for summers (in relation to Jats). They also specify the colours worn by different communities and religions (e.g. Hindus refrained from Green and  Sikhs preferred blue). 

I'm talking about jut male dress prior to them becoming Sikhs. Even in some afghan accounts of passing through Panjab with loot, there are references to being attacked by 'bare bottomed juts' when crossing streams. I didn't understand that until I started coming across these images.   

This one is REALLY interesting. I'm pretty sure the circled bit is a jut family in the early process of converting to Sikhi visiting Bhai Bir Singh Naurangabad's langar, and bringing contributions. Note the similarity of dress of the man, with the previous image I posted. What's those pitchforks called in Panjabi? 

 

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3 minutes ago, 5aaban said:

 

Found some information on this dress. It's called a "Janghia" and it wasn't the main dress. But it was worn during farm-work by some, the dhoti or Chaddra was still the main garment. Once they became baptised into Sikhi, it was replaced with a Kachera. 

I knew it!!! lol

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42 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

What's those pitchforks called in Panjabi? 

 

Tangli 

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2 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

I knew it!!! lol

It was worn by other communities too, I believe the cattle-grazers were mainly Muslims. But in general, the Hindu men of Panjab wore shorter Dhoti's compared to Chaddra/Majhla worn by Sikh and Muslims outside of physical work.  

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This one is urban (Amtritsar) not rural: 

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24 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

This one is urban (Amtritsar) not rural: 

I've seen this. This shows a lot of communities living in urban Amritsar, including Kashmiri muslims  and Hindus.  
 

 

 

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This is (at least based) upon one of the most earliest image of Singhs: