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Fish curry with rice (often cooked with coconut and tamarind), lobster and crab dishes,

tuna curry with coconut, and breadfruit and tapioca dishes are famous dishes of the
islands.

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Traditional Attire in India

Each landform has a unique traditional attire that reflects the climate, culture and

heritage of the people living there. Let’s learn about them.

The people living in the Himalayan regions
wear clothes that keep them warm and
protect them from snow and chilly winds.

Men wear woollen coats (pheran),
churidars and woollen caps. Women wear
long woollen gowns, colourful shawls attire of Himalayan attire of Himalayan
region (women)
region (men)
and ornaments made of silver.
People in the North-east hills wear vibrant
hand-woven shawls and skirts decorated

with traditional patterns and beads.
Bamboo hats are common in some tribal
communities.
attire of Mizoram attire of Nagaland
(women) (men)
People in the North-east valleys like Assam wear woven mekhela-
chador. The other minor tribes’ people wear different version of

mekhela-chador.
attire of Assam (women)
The plateau region covers parts of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Madhya
Pradesh. The climate is warm, so cotton clothes are common.

In Maharashtra, men traditionally wear
dhoti-kurta and a turban (pheta) while

women wear the nine-yard saree (Nauvari
saree).
attire of Maharashtra attire of Maharashtra
(men) (women)

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