Why did mahatma Gandhi opt. For. Khadi ? Explain
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Gandhi firmly believed that the essence of swadeshi consisted in producing enough cloth to wrap each Indian, which would be possible through spinning and weaving by the masses. The people needed to pledge themselves to the use of swadeshi cloth only. He added that the use of Khadi cloth for covering the body has greater implications. In his own words, “Khadi must be taken with all its implications. It means a wholesale Swadeshi mentality, a determination to find all the necessaries of life in India and that too through the labour and intellect of the villagers.
That means a reversal of the existing process. That is to say that, instead of half a dozen cities of India and Great Britain living on the exploitation and the ruin of the 7,00,000 villages of India, the latter will be largely self-contained, and will voluntarily serve the cities of India and even the outside world in so far as it benefits both the parties”.
The potential to produce khadi lying at the fingertips of an individual makes him/ her empowered and proud of the identity. For Gandhi, khadi was a means of uniting the Indians, of acquiring economic freedom and equality. More importantly, khadi marked the decentralisation of production and distribution of the “necessaries of life”. “If we feel for the starving masses of India, we must introduce the spinning wheel into their homes.
This initiative went a long way in knitting economic and sentimental ties between people in the villages and in the towns.
The spinning wheel became the centre of rural development. Anti-malaria campaigns, improvement in sanitation, settlement of disputes in villages and several other endeavours for enhancement of the quality of life in villages revolved around, in one way or the other, the spinning wheel. It provided an alternative means of livelihood to the underemployed and the unemployed people. For Gandhi, its adoption by the common people marked the protest against industrialism and materialism.
More importantly, the use of khadi reflected the faith and commitment of the masses to the practice of obtaining the necessities of life through the labour and intellect of the villagers. This marked the empowerment of the people in villages by making them self-sufficient and generating the confidence and the potential in them to overthrow their exploitation by the city dwellers. The use of khadi also ushered in the process of decentralisation of production and distribution of the basic necessities of life. Gandhi urged Congressmen to promote khadi rigorously.
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That means a reversal of the existing process. That is to say that, instead of half a dozen cities of India and Great Britain living on the exploitation and the ruin of the 7,00,000 villages of India, the latter will be largely self-contained, and will voluntarily serve the cities of India and even the outside world in so far as it benefits both the parties”.
The potential to produce khadi lying at the fingertips of an individual makes him/ her empowered and proud of the identity. For Gandhi, khadi was a means of uniting the Indians, of acquiring economic freedom and equality. More importantly, khadi marked the decentralisation of production and distribution of the “necessaries of life”. “If we feel for the starving masses of India, we must introduce the spinning wheel into their homes.
This initiative went a long way in knitting economic and sentimental ties between people in the villages and in the towns.
The spinning wheel became the centre of rural development. Anti-malaria campaigns, improvement in sanitation, settlement of disputes in villages and several other endeavours for enhancement of the quality of life in villages revolved around, in one way or the other, the spinning wheel. It provided an alternative means of livelihood to the underemployed and the unemployed people. For Gandhi, its adoption by the common people marked the protest against industrialism and materialism.
More importantly, the use of khadi reflected the faith and commitment of the masses to the practice of obtaining the necessities of life through the labour and intellect of the villagers. This marked the empowerment of the people in villages by making them self-sufficient and generating the confidence and the potential in them to overthrow their exploitation by the city dwellers. The use of khadi also ushered in the process of decentralisation of production and distribution of the basic necessities of life. Gandhi urged Congressmen to promote khadi rigorously.
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Because he don't want to use the foreign cloths . he wants to be independent from all .So he planted raw materials for yarn for weaving it as a cloth .Hence the cloth is called as khadi.
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