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 103 |
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File Name | uhlib_6409088_102.jpg |
Transcript | THE DUTY OF SPINNING In "The Secret of Swaraj" I have endeavoured to show what home-spinning means for our country. In any curriculum of the future, spinning must be a compulsory subject. Just as we cannot live without breathing and without eating, so is it impossible for us to attain economic independence and banish pauperism from this ancient laud without reviving home-spinning. I hold the spinning wheel to be as much a necessity in every household as the hearth. No other scheme that can be devised will ever solve the problem of the deepening poverty of the people. How then can spinning be introduced in every home ? I have already suggested the introduction of spinning and systematic production of yarn in every national school. Once our boys and girls have learnt the art they .can easily carry it to their homes But this requires organisation. A spinning wheel must be worked for twelve hours per day. A practised spinner can spin two tolas and a half per hour. The price that is being paid at |