Peshawari turban, also Peshawari patke (Pashto: پېښوري پټکی) or Peshawari lungee, is the traditional turban worn in Peshawar and its surrounding regions.
It is a two-piece headgear. One piece is a dome-shaped hard cap or kulla, generally embroidered with golden thread. The other is called lungi which consists of a long and narrow piece of cotton cloth (not to be confused with a waist cloth wrapped in some regions). It has a fan-shaped turra (crest) and a tail termed shamla.
Subhas Chandra Bose had used a Peshawari turban to disguise himself as a Pashtun in 1941 to flee from the British territory.
During the British rule a similar turban was part of the dress for some government peons.
Gandhara turban gallery from major museums (1st-3rd century CE)
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The Great Departure of Buddha, Victoria and Albert Museum click on image for detail
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Hadda
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Bodhisattva Maitreya, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery click on image for detail
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Guimet Museum
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Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
See also
References
- The Turbans (Pugrees) of Pakistan, September 24, 2008, All Things Pakistan, http://pakistaniat.com/2008/09/24/turban-pugree-pug-pakistan
- Pakistan: an introduction, Herbert Feldman, Edition 2, Oxford University Press, 1968
- Subhas Chandra Bose: Netaji's passage to immortality, Subodh Markandeya, Arnold Publishers, Dec 1, 1990, p. 147
- In The Districts Of The Raj, Y.D. Gundevia,1992, p. 30
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