Peshawari turban

Type of turban

Amir Chand Bombwal, journalist from Peshawar wearing a Peshawari turban

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.[1] 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.[2]

Subhas Chandra Bose had used a Peshawari turban to disguise himself as a Pashtun in 1941 to flee from the British territory.[3]

During the British rule a similar turban was part of the dress for some government peons.[4]

## 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

* Hadda

* Victoria and Albert Museum

* Victoria and Albert Museum

* Los Angeles County Museum of Art

* Bodhisattva Maitreya, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery click on image for detail

* Guimet Museum

* Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

## See also

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* Khăn vấn
* Peshawari chappal
* Pagri (turban)
* Puneri Pagadi
* Turban
* Rasam Pagri

## References

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1. ^ The Turbans (Pugrees) of Pakistan, September 24, 2008, All Things Pakistan, http://pakistaniat.com/2008/09/24/turban-pugree-pug-pakistan
2. ^ Pakistan: an introduction, Herbert Feldman, Edition 2, Oxford University Press, 1968
3. ^ Subhas Chandra Bose: Netaji's passage to immortality, Subodh Markandeya, Arnold Publishers, Dec 1, 1990, p. 147
4. ^ In The Districts Of The Raj, Y.D. Gundevia,1992, p. 30

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