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The Birth of Khadi
I do not remember to have seen a handloom or a spinning wheel when in 1908 I described it in "Hind Swaraj" as the panacea for the growing pauperism of India. In that book I took it as understood that anything that helped India to get rid of the grinding poverty of her masses would in the same process also establishSwaraj. Even in 1915, when I returned to India from South Africa, I had not actually seen a spinning wheel. When the Satyagraha Ashram was founded at Sabarmati, we introduced a few handlooms there. But no sooner had we done this than we found ourselves up against a difficulty. All of us belonged either to the liberal professions or to business; not one of us was an artisan. We needed a weaving expert to teach us to weave before we could work the looms. One was at last procured from Palanpur, but Maganlal Gandhi was not to be easily baffled. Possessed of a natural talent for mechanics, he was able fully to master the art before long, and one after another several new weavers were trained up in the Ashram.
The object that we set before ourselves was to be able to clothe ourselves entirely in cloth manufactured by our own hands. We therefore forthwith discarded the use of mill-woven cloth, and all the members of the Ashram resolved to wear hand-woven cloth made from Indian yarn only. The adoption of this practice brought us a world of experience. It enabled us to know, from direct contact, the conditions of life among the weavers, the extent of their production, the handicaps in the way of their obtaining their yarn supply, the way in which they were being made victims of fraud, and, lastly, their ever growing indebtedness. We were not in a position immediately to manufacture all the cloth for our needs. The alternative therefore was to get our cloth supply from handloom weavers. But ready-made cloth from Indian mill-yarn was not easily obtainable either from the cloth- dealers or from the weavers themselves. All the fine cloth woven by the weavers was from foreign yarn, since Indian mills did not spin fine counts. Even today the outturn of higher counts by Indian mills is very limited, whilst highest counts they cannot spin at all. It was after the greatest effort that we were at last able to find some weavers who condescended to weave Swadeshi yarn for us, and only on condition that the Ashram would take up all the cloth that they might produce. By thus adopting cloth woven from mill-yarn as our wear, and propagating it among our friends, we made ourselves voluntary agents of the Indian spinning mills. This in its turn brought us into contact with the mills, and enabled us to know something about their management and their handicaps. We saw that the aim of the mills was more and more to weave the yarn spun by them: their co-operation with the handloom weaver was not willing, but unavoidable and temporary. We became impatient to be able to spin our own yarn. It was clear that, until we could do this ourselves, dependence on the mills would remain. We did not feel that we could render any service to the country by continuing as agents of Indian spinning mills.
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It all started in 1905, with the 'Swadeshi Movement,' in which Indians began boycotting all foreign goods. The father of our nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, encouraged all Indians to boycott British textiles and introduced an alternative - indigenous Khadi fabric. Indians learned to weave and wear an ingenious fabric as a result of the movement. Gandhi ji believed that this would help the development of Indian nationalism. It was training in'self-determination,"self-help,' and'self-reliance,' according to Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai.
"If we have the 'khadi spirit' in us, we will surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life," Gandhi ji said. The term "khadi spirit" refers to infinite patience. Those who know anything about the production of khadi know how patiently the spinners and weavers must toil at their trade; similarly, we must be patient while spinning the thread of Swaraj." The All India Spinners Association was founded in 1925 with the goal of producing, promoting, and selling Khadi. This organisation has worked to improve Khadi production and create job opportunities for Indian weavers.
The Indian government established the Khadi, Village, and Industries Commission in 1957. (KVIC). It was previously known as the 'All India Khadi and Village Industries Board.' This commission is responsible for strengthening Khadi production techniques, supplying raw materials to producers, inspecting fabric quality, and marketing Khadi products.
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