The Indian government has banned black gowns and mortarboards at some graduation ceremonies as part of a continuing effort to erase Britain’s “colonial legacy”.
The health ministry has ordered all state-owned medical colleges to replace them with clothes based on local traditions to create “an appropriate Indian dress code”.
“This attire originated in the Middle Ages in Europe and was introduced by the British in all their colonies. The tradition is a colonial legacy which needs to be changed,” the ministry said in a letter addressed to heads of all central government-run medical institutions.
Narendra Modi, the prime minister, has repeatedly spoken of the need for India to shed the vestiges of the British Raj, claiming that hanging on to such customs represents “mental
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