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Kerala women traditional dress

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The garments of  south Indian States are greatly unfair by the way of life and tradition of Kerala. The colors of the garments are usually pure white or off-white and are plain in form. For a few particular occasions like wedding the colors symbolizes unusual shades of red. Further, the warm climatic conditions moreover put up with an influence on the kind of garments used up by the limited people of Kerala. Mundum neriyathum is the traditional garments of women in Kerala, South India. The mundum neryathum mainly it is having two sections of garment: A mundu is a one-part cloth swathed on the lower part whereas neriyathu is used up above a blouse and could be used up in moreover the traditional fashion with the neriyathum folded within the blouse, or in the contemporary fashion with the neriyathum used up on the left shoulder. It is used up by women from all groups of people of Kerala and is habitually referred simply as “Kerala saree”. The mundum neryathum...
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Traditional Costumes of Tamil Nadu

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Sultan Bathery

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Sulthan Bathery , previously known as Sultan's Battery , is a town in Wayanad district of Kerala, India. It derives its present name from Tipu Sultan of Mysore who used the abandoned Jain temple here and used it as his battery here in the 18th century, hence the name Sultan's Battery. This town was part of Kidanganadu Village, which got its name because the presence of the Kidangans the tribes. Later, it came to be known as Sultan Bathery, the Malayalam version of its name. It is also known as Sultan's Battery of Wayanad district. Though the fort does not remain any more, the place is worth the visit for the famous Jain Temple. The place was previously known by the name of Sulthan's Battery . It is the Taluk headquarters of Sultan Bathery. It lies on the Kozhikode–Kollegal National Highway (NH 766) 98 km from Kozhikode. It is 115 kilometers from Mysore and about 100 kilometers from Ooty (Udagamandalam). It is also connected with Nilambur. The people primarily depe...
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