Talk:Swadeshi movement

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"If the French language can be used as an analogue, the word Swadeshi is the adjectival form of "of ones own country"." i thought i was fluent in french and english but i have to admit that i don't understand this sentence... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.228.247.28 (talk) 17:30, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Maybe: "national"? :) Zezen (talk) 11:20, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Achiements
1.It united all Indians to be as one and fight for swaraj. 2.It gave rise to the NATIONAL MOVEMENT which has shaken up the british pillars. 3.A lot of Indian industries joined the movement to make it an extra mass movement for their employment —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.108.203.105 (talk) 01:43, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

who is the leader of this movement? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.164.192.173 (talk) 15:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Shallow textbook history
Naturally I was not there during the swadeshi movement, but then, I live in India, and understand how truths can be twisted. It is an everyday event here.

As to the Swadeshi Movement being a pro-people movement, one needs to take the idea with a pinch of salt. I quote from Home and the World written by Rabindranath Tagore. He was from Bengal and naturally knew what really happened.

Quote from the book A FEW days later, my master brought Panchu round to me. His __zamindar__, it appeared, had fined him a hundred rupees, and was threatening him with ejectment.

"For what fault?" I enquired.

"Because," I was told, "he has been found selling foreign cloths. He begged and prayed Harish Kundu, his __zamindar__, to let him sell off his stock, bought with borrowed money, promising faithfully never to do it again; but the __zamindar__ would not hear of it, and insisted on his burning the foreign stuff there and then, if he wanted to be let off. Panchu in his desperation blurted out defiantly: "I can't afford it! You are rich; why not buy it up and burn it?" This only made Harish Kundu red in the face as he shouted: "The scoundrel must be taught manners, give him a shoe-beating!" So poor Panchu got insulted as well as fined.

"What happened to the cloth?"

"The whole bale was burnt."

"Who else was there?"

"Any number of people, who all kept shouting __Bande Mataram__. Sandip was also there. He took up some of the ashes, crying: 'Brothers! This is the first funeral pyre lighted by your village in celebration of the last rites of foreign commerce. These are sacred ashes. Smear yourselves with them in token of your __Swadeshi__ vow.'"

"Panchu," said I, turning to him, "you must lodge a complaint."

"No one will bear me witness," he replied.

"None bear witness?—Sandip! Sandip!"

Sandip came out of his room at my call. "What is the matter?" he asked.

"Won't you bear witness to the burning of this man's cloth?"

Sandip smiled. "Of course I shall be a witness in the case," he said. "But I shall be on the opposite side."

"What do you mean," I exclaimed, "by being a witness on this or that side? Will you not bear witness to the truth?"

"Is the thing which happens the only truth?"

"What other truths can there be?"

"The things that ought to happen! The truth we must build up will require a great deal of untruth in the process. Those who have made their way in the world have created truth, not blindly followed it." --Ved from Victoria Institutions (talk) 11:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Ooh. And your point is? Zezen (talk) 11:19, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Is it same as autarky?
Just a local version of autarky, a la Albania, North Korea etc? Zezen (talk) 11:21, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Article does not explain Swadeshi
Hello fellow Wikipedians. Reading this article, I was struck by a complete lack of explanation on the topic itself or even an obvious definition of it. Jamutaq (talk) 18:29, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Removed part about thumb-cutting
"It originated from Bengal because the sentiments due to closed down domestic cloth industry was very high. In 1757 East India Company exported muslin cloth to Europe but by 1857 they had conspired and crushed local cloth industry by cutting the thumbs of spinners who used to spin fine muslin cloth (exceeding 200 counts) in order to make way for English cloth which was not as fine as Indian hand spun cloth.[7]" I have just removed these two sentences from the article as what they claimed was contradicted by their own source. According to the source the opposite happened: the weavers had been so poorly threated they had cut-off their own thumbs to avoid being forced to work.

Devlopment after Swadeshi movement
This is very important to know what devlopment was in after the Swadeshi movement 117.96.185.147 (talk) 10:26, 22 December 2023 (UTC)