Jha, Sadan - In: The Indian Economic & Social History Review 51 (2014) 2, pp. 199-229
This article delineates the emergence of saffron as a colour of national importance in the late 1920s, when Nehru recognised it as an ‘old colour’, and Suniti Kumar Chatterji claimed that it was symbolic of ‘Indian life’, thus elevating it from its humble position as a kacha colour. The...