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Cell 512 22. "I am deeply grateful for the response which has been made to my appeal to the country to celebrate the Swadeshi Day, with a view to further extend and deepen the Swadeshi movement. From all inf rmaticn I have received from newspapers, and private letters, I have no doubt that the day will be widely celebrated in British India. I have not yet wade special appeal to the ruling princes, Government, and the people of Indian States to take their full share in the Swadeshi movement. But I do so nw. What is 'Swadesh' & Swadeship
Swadesh" means "My Country " and "Swadeshi " means "people or things of my country." India is a common country for Princes and people of the Indian States as much as the people of British India, and it is as much the duty of princes and people of the Indian States as af those of British India, and it is an equal advantage to both to promote the Swadeshi movement for the good of our coninion Motherland.
I hope where Swadeshi Sangha, or the Bus-Indian-League has not already been established, it will be organized without any avoidable delay in every city, town, Tehsil, Taluka, both in Indian India and British India, to promote the objects of the move. ment. Wanted permanent Exhibitions.
It is also essential to have a perma. nent Swadeshi Exhibition, established in every district, with an information Burean to supply the list of manufacturers, swadeshi articles, their addresses and such other useful information, together with a sinall industrial and commercial library attached to it.
The economic welfare of the people can be secured by promoting the industry
both of the farmer and the manufacturer. The Swadeshi moveinent must keep this duel object in view.
The exhibition should therefore, be divided into two main sections, Agricultural & Industrial. The object should be to develop the institution as the most important centre in each district to help forward both agricultural and industrial advance, particularly in the direction of cottage industries. It should be remembered (to quote the words of Mahatma Gandhi) that without the ccttage industry the Indian peasant is doomed. He cannot maintain himselt from the produce of the land. He needs a supplmentary industry ana spinning is the easiest, cheapest and the best. It supplements agriculture, and therefore, automatically assists materialiy to solve the problem of our growing poverty. Mahatma's greatest service.
One greatest service which Mahatma Gandhi has rendered to the country has been the revival of the spinning-wheel and handspun hand-woven khaddar which has brought about the most happy revolution in the clothing of people both men and women. It has given employment to tens of thousands in every part of British India
I would urge all, who can afford it, to use hand spun and hand-woven cloth and leave all cloth of cur Indian mills to be used by those of our people who cannot obtain khaddar.
But this is not only one of the home industries with which the Swadeshi movement is concerned. There are a thousand others which it is our duty and our Interest to promote. I appeal to all my countrymen and country women of all classes, creeds, including Government servants to j.in this patriotic and humanitarian endeavour and do so, thereby helping to ameliorate and advance the economic condition of our people."
u d 4* wort eraan *14વીવાજીના આ આદેશ છે. એ આદેશ આપવાને એમના કરતાં અધિક અધિકાર અત્યારે કોઇજ દેશનેતાને નથી. દેશનેતાની પંકિતમાં મહાત્મા ગાંધી પછી બીજું સ્થાન ૫. 414141091 3: 23 - 2422/1" 4 144 i 512 Gy' 5 4 Sen. 4 24197118 414 421244 474441
