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"Even some of the country's biggest fashion institutes do not have an archive of our textiles," says Lekha Poddar, co-founder of Devi Art Foundation, which has supported nine exhibitions on textiles in the past decade.

Usha Devi, who was travelling to the eastern state of Bihar for her nephew's wedding, said chaos erupted the moment she reached the platform.

Ruby Devi said the crowd at the Indian capital's main railway station had been so big she was unable to get inside.

Ms Devi said she does not know where her son is, of if he is even alive.

The 60-year-old priest is the head of the powerful Dasna Devi temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad town and has been repeatedly in the news for openly calling for violence against Muslims.