... prices cheaper than locally produced Indian goods, thereby ruining the Indian indigenous industry and draining India's wealth.17 This belief and opposition to British exploitation lead to the influential Gandhi starting the Khadi movement, which aimed to make India self-sufficient. It was in this context that Gandhi introduced the use of the charkha for the production of khadi. He pointed ... collective State ownership of the same."20 This clearly rejects any Marxist resemblance in Gandhi's economic opposition to capitalism and modernization. In fact Gandhi aimed to reconstruct the vill...

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