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Swadeshi
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Swadeshi [swəˈdeɪʃɪ]
adj
(Economics) (in present-day India) produced within the country; not imported
n
(Historical Terms) (in British India) the encouragement of domestic production and boycott of foreign goods as part of the campaign for independence
[from Bengali svadesī, from Sanskrit svadeśin, from sva one's own + deśa country]


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Gandhi in the early 1920s, as part of the swadeshi movement, Trivedi argues, nationalists and common people used khadi to construct a common visual vocabulary through which a population separated by language, religion, caste, class and region communicated their political dissent and their visions of community.
Byline: ANI Washington, June 16 (ANI): Mahatma Gandhi's Swadeshi movement still motivates people to rebel against global brands in India, according to a Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta researcher.
15 (ANI): Charkha, the traditional spinning wheel that once formed the face of Swadeshi movement and was used by Mahatma Gandhi to mount a campaign against British rulers, has become a decorative piece of art.
 
 
 
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