Earliest Use of bangles:

1. Bangles have been found in many archaeological sites in India, with the oldest examples dating back to 2,000 B.C. or even earlier. During those times, bangles were mainly made from copper, bronze, agate, or shell and some feature rivets or gold-leaf decoration as well.

Significance in Indian weddings:

2. While all the girls in traditional Indian society are permitted to wear bangles, it is usually married women who are expected to wear bangles. All kinds of Indian jewellery is primarily associated with matrimony, signifying marriage. Sikh or Punjabi brides are supposed to wear red and white carved bangles called "chuda" on their wedding day.

Different bangles have different meanings:

3. Different glass bangles have different meanings as per their color. There are certain regions that have specific kind of bangles associated with their local traditions, and there is a more general color code for bangles as well. In India, one can find bangles of various colors and all colors have some or the other significance. Red bangles signify energy, blue bangles signify wisdom and purple signifies independence. The color green stands for luck or marriage and the color yellow is for happiness. Orange bangles stand for success, the meaning of white bangles is new beginnings and black bangles symbolize power. Silver bangles denote strength, while gold bangles stand for fortune.

Tradition and Beliefs associated with bangles:

4. Usually, an Indian bride on her wedding day attempts to put on as small a glass bangle as possible – it is believed that smaller bangles symbolize more happiness during the honeymoon and afterwards. All the friends and sisters aid the bride in this task by sliding the bangle on her hands with scented oils. After the wedding, the newly-married bride continues to wear her bangles as a charm of safety and luck for her husband, and if a bangle breaks before the death of the husband, it is considered a bad omen.

Production:

5. The biggest producer of glass bangles in India is Firozabad, a town in Uttar Pradesh. Other than that, a historical bangle market called Laad Bazar is located in Hyderabad and has been operational for more than 500 years.

Glass bangles have many interesting symbolisms India.

Here are some of them:

Bangles have been a part of the Indian society culture since millenniums, but the new fashionable bangles are more versatile than ever before. Bangles are available anywhere in India. One can easily find designer bangles in malls, jewelry shops etc. But the real significance of bangles lies in matrimony.

Bangles and Husband and Luck – Indian married women are supposed to wear bangles (green or red depending on which region they belong to) on a day to day basis as bangles are symbolic of safety, marriage and luck for their husbands.

Besides having a matrimonial significance, bangles are also worn as style statements. These days, a lot of young females can be spotted wearing trendy and stylish bangles matching with their dresses. So, bangles have a lot of significance in Indian culture.

Few useful links:

http://www.jeevansathi.com/

http://www.jeevansathi.com/matrimonials/hindu-matrimonial/