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🇮🇳 Hairstyles of India

11 hairstyles from India, best known first.

Style capital Barber street or district Sacred site School or museum Culture region

Hair places in India

Amritsar Chennai Haridwar Madurai Mumbai Palani Tirumala Triveni Sangam, Prayagraj Varanasi ghats

🇮🇳 IndiaHead shaving in Hinduism A ritual act of head shaving in Hinduism for purification, mourning, and devotion.Shaved · Any hair

🇮🇳 India and 2 moreFirst haircut A rite of passage marking a child's first hair cutting across various cultures and faiths.Shaved · Any hair

🇮🇳 IndiaPunjabi paranda A multicoloured silk braid extension from Punjab.Adorned · Any hair

🇮🇳 IndiaTonsure A religious practice of cutting or shaving scalp hair to signal devotion, humility, or clerical status.Shaved · Any hair

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Tonsure: Pietro Perugino, Public domain, source
First haircut: https://www.flickr.com/people/69061470@N05, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Head shaving in Hinduism: Napoleon is back, CC0, source
Punjabi paranda: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source

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