19th century picture showing detail from the temple at Madurai showing a statue of a praying figure (possibly King Viswanatha Nayak, Founder of Madurai Nayak Dynasty). In 1921, Mahatma Gandhi, leader of Indian nationalism in British India, first adopted the loin cloth as his mode of dress

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