Title | Swaraj in one year |
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Publisher | Ganesh |
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Date | 1921 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 121 pages; 19 cm |
Original Item Location | DS448.G35 1921 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304490~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | Public Domain: This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 68 |
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Transcript | 62 MAHATMA GANDHI the difficulty but spinning for the whole of India. Aud so I ask you youngmen of Bengal to accept the privilege that I place at your feet. And if we can bring a complete boycott of foreign cloth we sterilise the activity of the fifty- five Members of *the House of Commons that Lancashire contributes to it, we sterilise the activities of ambitious Japan who has her eyes fixed and set upon India. And you will not gain your economic freedom, as theCongress has told you until India becomes self-contained so far as her food and clothing are concerned. We can do without all things but we cannot do without food and clothing. And a vast country like India 1900 miles long and 1500 miles broad cannot possibly become self-contained by any other means than the means of old. So youngmen of Bengal if you will work in order to gain Swaraj within one year you will accept the advice of a man who has conducted a series of experiments to whom this gospel came in the year 1908 and who has not yet been ousted from it by a hair's breadth The more I have studied the economics of India, the more I have listened to the mill-owners of I idia the more convinced I have become that until we introduce the spinning wheel in every |