INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

GS History Modern India
Q.

Mahatma Gandhi initiated a movement for Khadi as a relief to masses in Indian villages. According to Gandhi’s philosophy and ideology Khadi symbolizes?

1. Purity

2. Simplicity

3. Self-reliance and self-government

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Explanation:
  • Khadi was introduced in 1920 as a supporting weapon of Satygraha and as the best instrument for providing concrete expression to the Swadeshi spirit to boycott foreign goods.
  • Khadi rendered an opportunity to every man, woman and child to cultivate self discipline and self-sacrifice as a part of the non-cooperation movement.
  • Spinning and weaving was elevated to an ideology for self-reliance and self government. Thus according to Mahatma Gandhi Khadi is not mere a piece of cloth but a way of life. Khadi was made the central core of the constructive activities. Mahatma Gandhi saw it as the end of dependency on foreign materials symbolizing foreign rule and thus giving a first lesson or real independence. Mahatma Gandhi hoped for a certain bond of unity between the classes and masses by bridging the gap with a common occupation, and he saw great social value in hand-spinning.
  • Mahatma Gandhi presented Khadi as a symbol of nationalism, equality and selfreliance. It was his belief that reconstruction of the society and effective Satyagraha against the foreign rule can be possible only through Khadi. It clearly displayed that through employing a fresh and imaginative approach, how an idea, determinedly pursued, can become a movement.
  • This revolved around the use of Khadi fabrics as a means of promotion of Swadeshi movement against the dumping of foreign-made clothes. Thus it symbolized the political ideas and independence itself Khadi, the fabric that successfully transcended its commodity status to become a political symbol.
  1. The simplicity as advocated through the Khadi Movement by Mahatma Gandhi can be subversive and revolutionary.
  2. Mahatma Gandhi said the wearing of Khadi replaces the conventional idea of wearing clothes for ornament purpose.

Thus, Option D is Correct.

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