Mahatma Gandhi’s
spinning wheel and Gandhi’s ghani (the indigenous cold press oil mill) are both
symbols of swadeshi as economic freedom and economic democracy. Gandhi inspired
everyone in India to start spinning their own cloth in order to break free from
the imperial control over the textile industry, which enslaved our farmers to
grow cotton and indigo for the mills of Lancashire and Manchester, and dumped
industrial clothing on India, destroying the livelihoods of our spinners and
weavers.
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