01-18-2007, 08:27 PM
One thing you notice from Mughal minatures is that the churidar is a courtly dress while the Salwar is a rustic dress. And from the Ajanta paintings it was also indegenous. The paintings of the Satavahana period also show the dvarapalaka in churidar.
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