Mahatma Gandhi had paid a visit to the Jharkhand area of what was then Bihar in the early 20th century, where he’d met Jatra Tana Bhagat. A tribal freedom fighter, Bhagat had a wide following that extended far beyond his own village.

And when Gandhi was about to bid him goodbye, the latter’s followers asked him for something that they could remember the occasion with. Gandhi thus gave the men the tricolour with a charkha in the middle. Then, when the women also asked him for souvenirs, he gave them the famous white Gandhian cap. That’s why if you visit the area even today, you’ll find that the women there don’t receive visitors with their saree acting as a veil to hide their hair, but with Gandhian caps covering their heads instead.