In articles from the early non-co-operation years, Gandhi argues that hand-spinning and hand-weaving can give India’s poorest a living and the nation its self-rule. He discusses swadeshi stores, the boycott of foreign cloth, the Khilafat movement and the economics of the charkha, with an introduction defending his rejection of complicated machinery.
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