why did gandhiji advocate Swadeshi?

Answer 1

Gandhi recognised that alienation and exploitation often occur when production and consumption are divorced from their social and cultural context, and that local enterprise is a way to avoid these problems. "Swadeshi is that spirit in us which requires us to serve our immediate neighbours before others, and to use things produced in our neighbourhood in preference to those more remote. So doing, we serve humanity to the best of our capacity. We cannot serve humanity by neglecting our neighbours

Answer 2

First the foreign people came to India ,to sell there product or even say to find market for their product.We had the product,in different form,if we tried to produce ,we would have produced.Since we have not tried ,we were compelled to buy those things.Gandhji advocated Swadeshi,if we still purchase his product,he will try to open more market in India,and try to swindle .If Indians also do not ,atleast try for indegeneous product,atleast at that hour,it will be very difficult,either to cultivate or inculcate the habit making indigeneous product, and boycot the foreign ,and to some extent the real seller atleast go away from this country,immediately.

Answer 3

England had destroyed the Indian textile industry in favor of its own British cotton mills.

"Mahatma Gandhi described Swadeshi as "a call to the consumer to be aware of the violence he is causing by supporting those industries that result in poverty, harm to workers and to humans and other creatures."

"Swadeshi movement" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadeshi

Answer 4

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