Jawaharlal Nehru's impact on India was so extensive that ... over his 17 years as India's first prime minister was the achkan, a knee-length coat with a stand-up collar, which he wore with ...

Kolkata, Sept 4 : The personality of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was such commanding ... Kutchat asked for the ‘achkan' (jacket) that the Prime Minister was wearing.

the Nehru jacket is a hip-length Indian jacket with a central button placket. Evolved from another form of outerwear, the ...

The Nehru jacket comes from "the northern Indian achkan, a closed-neck, coat like garment usually considered court dress for Indian nobility", Time magazine says. "It was when the jacket was ...

Escorted to the White House by Vice President Richard Nixon, Nehru, dressed in his customary achkan, high-buttoned coat and salwars (jodhpur-like trousers), jauntily shook hands with Mamie and the ...

One morning, while playing, I saw a handsome man in an achkan and Gandhi cap on a white horse, galloping across the Golf Course. It was Jawaharlal Nehru. He was riding along with the-then major ...

He was wearing a white achkan with a red rose tucked neatly in ... Sandhwan, who is usually seen in kurta pyjama and a Nehru jacket, appeared in a different avatar in the Vidhan Sabha after ...

The stylish "Nehru jacket", made popular by India's first ... The jacket comes from "the northern Indian achkan, a closed-neck, coatlike garment usually considered court dress for Indian nobility ...

The stylish "Nehru jacket", made popular by India's first ... The jacket comes from "the northern Indian achkan, a closed-neck, coatlike garment usually considered court dress for Indian nobility ...