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'''Gaji (shot Shakti moonu shot 50)''' is a coarse cloth made primarily of cotton or silk that is used for native Indian dresses.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sohrābjī|first=munshī Ḍōsābhāī|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pWvRAAAAMAAJ|title=A New Self-instructing Work Entitled Idiomatic Sentences,.|date=1873|publisher=Printed at the "Reporters' Press," by Merwanjee Nowrojee, Daboo|pages=426|language=ur}}</ref><br />
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== Structure ==<br />
Gaji was similar to [[Khadi|khaddar]], a rough, coarse material made on [[Loom|handloom]] by local Julahas (weavers) with cotton or silk. A comparable cloth was garha.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Nevill|first=H. R.|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.47989|title=Bareilly - A Gazetteer|date=1911|pages=66}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=H.R. Nevill|url=http://archive.org/details/dli.csl.2985|title=Jaunpur: a Gazetteer being volume XXVIII of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|date=1908|publisher=Allahabad, Superintendent Government Press|pages=282}}</ref> The fabric was durable and warm.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=O’malley|first=L. s s|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69905|title=Bengal District Gazetteers Gaya|date=1906|pages=179}}</ref><br />
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=== Use ===<br />
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 [[Khes|blanket]], and women wrapped it as [[sari]] and used in [[chemise]]s.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=O’Malley|first=Lewis Sydney Steward|url=http://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.07371|title=Bengal District Gazetteer : Gaya|date=1912|publisher=Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, Calcutta|pages=22}}</ref><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Luard|first=C. E.|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.115688|title=Eastern States Gazetteers (bundelkhand)|date=1864|pages=395}}</ref><br />
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== Production ==<br />
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, Uttar Pradesh|Jaunpur]],<ref name=":1" /> [[Bareilly]]<ref name=":0" /> and [[Bengal]].<ref name=":3" /> Gaji weavers took a significant hit when power looms made their entry.<ref>PAGE 137<br />
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Competition of powerlooms has, therefore, resulted in the reduction of the remuneration of gaji weavers.<br />
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The Gaji cloth was also one of the products produced in the [[Jail industry (India)|Jail industry]] in Mewar.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shore |first=R. |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.530006 |title=Medico Topographical Account Of Mewar |date=1909 |pages=20 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Khadi]]<br />
* [[Longcloth]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Handloom industry in India]]<br />
[[Category:Woven fabrics]]<br />
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