Talk:Gandhi cap

Inaccurate
Please see Shashi Tharoor of Times) Gandhiji never wore the cap Quork 22:09, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Shashi Tharoor is clearly wrong. Gandhi did wear it, but only for a short period. See photos. Malaiya (talk) 05:24, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Topis worn by working class?
Aren't the caps worn by Mumbai Dabbawallas and most farmers in Maratha heartland some form of Gandhi topi? If so, something to that effect must be added in the article. --Gurubrahma 13:17, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

yes, they are Gandhi caps. its very popular in Marathi villages, esp. around Nasik, where the origins of most of these dabbawallas lie. I've also come across schools around the area where the cap forms part of the school uniform too. Quork 22:09, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Martin Luther King's I have a Dream speech and Gandhi cap
In the 1963, several individuals standing right behind Martin Luther King wear something that looks exactly like a Gandhi cap. They have been described as "folding white hats" that cooks might have worn. One of them is Charlie Jackson  1924 — 1999 (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/martin-luther-king-dream-speech/index.html ) wearing "folded white hat, like one you might see on a cook in a diner."


 * KIng was in Delhi in 1959.

"King toured Delhi wearing a Gandhi cap, met with dignitaries and officials, and gave several speeches and guest lectures. In some of his speaking engagements, King expressed admiration for how the Indians and their former colonizers, the …"(Gandhi and King: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance, Michael J. Nojeim, Greenwood Publishing Group, Jan 1, 2004, p. 185)


 * Washington Post reported in 2009:

"Fifty years after his parents, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, traveled to India to study Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence, Martin Luther King III is in India to retrace his late father's footsteps. ..A few Indian college students gathered around a photograph of King Jr. giving the "I Have a Dream" speech. The photo showed two African American men wearing white, pointed caps in the style of Gandhi. "This visit is a wake-up call for young Indians, too," said Varsha Das, director of the National Gandhi Museum. "It reminds us once again that Gandhi was not just restricted to India."  ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/17/AR2009021703040.html  Son Marks Martin Luther King's 1959 Visit to India, Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post Foreign Service,  February 18, 2009)

Hindu reported on the Speech:

"The sea of thousands of men and women, many wearing Gandhi caps, influenced by the Mahatma’s struggle for human rights; independence through non-violence as a world truth."

(http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/i-have-a-dream/article5056710.ece August 25, 2013 ‘I have a dream…', VAYU NAIDU, The HIndu, August 25, 2013)

Malaiya (talk) 05:41, 29 June 2014 (UTC)