... India becomes self- supporting, self-reliant, and proof against temptations and exploitation, she will cease to be the object of greedy attraction for any power in the West or the East....Her internal economy will be India's strongest bulwark against aggression."21 This is mentioned in the Hind Swaraj and points to Gandhi having an independent and distinctive socioeconomic view ... disciples as Nehru claimed in his autobiography "we cannot stop the river of change or cut ourselves adrift from it and psychologically we who have eaten the apple of Eden cannot forget the taste and go back ...

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