Question

Which of the following measures was/were propagated by Gandhi during the Swadeshi Movement?

• A. He asked people to use Swadeshi goods and boycott foreign goods.
  
• B. He emphasised the use of Charkha and Khadi.
  
• C. He supported the spread of large scale industrialisation.
• D. He advocated the establishment of cottage industries.

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (B), (D)

The correct options are
A He asked people to use Swadeshi goods and boycott foreign goods.

B He emphasised the use of Charkha and Khadi.

D He advocated the establishment of cottage industries.

‘Swadeshi’ was a weapon used by Mahatma Gandhi against the British. He asked people to use Swadeshi goods and boycott foreign goods to incapacitate British trade. He emphasised the use of Charkha and Khadi for the upliftment of the poor in India. He was against the idea of industrialisation as the west described it. Instead, he advocated the establishment of cottage industries to remove unemployment and poverty from the countryside. Gandhi launched the Swadeshi Movement because he firmly believed that political freedom without economic freedom was useless.