Swadeshi

swadeshi English Noun - en swadeshi. en [Editorial Notes.] Missionaries Assaulted in a Swadeshi Riot. The Church Missionary Intelligencer: A Monthly Journal of Missionary Information London Church Missionary Society,Salisbury Square. September 1906 XXXI (New Series; volume LVII overall) 713 https://books.google.com/books?id=-6BCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA713 718381179 The Swadeshi movement in India is one which in certain of its aspects can be regarded with much sympathy. A spirit of patriotism is excellent, and the endeavour to engender and foster it, provided it is made along legitimate lines, calls for encouragement and not condemnation. en Notes on Colonial and Foreign Banking, Finance and Commerce. [Indian Foreign Trade.] The Bankers’, Insurance Managers’ & Agents’ Magazine London Waterlow and SonsLimited, 85 & 86 London Wall, E.C. and all booksellers. July 1907 LXXXIV 760 61 https://books.google.com/books?id=quwzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA61 1032860852 The Swadeshi movement, in its bad sense—the boycotting of foreign goods—has had no effect on imports as a whole, and even the articles specifically aimed at, cotton goods and sugar, have entered to an unparalleled extent in the last three years. The good side of the Swadeshi movement, the development of indigenous industries, is seen in the increased imports of textile machinery and metals. en Basanta Koomar Roy Insurgency in India Robert M[arion] La Follette La Follette’s Weekly Magazine Madison, Wis. Robert M. La Follette Company 30 December 1911 III 52 8 https://books.google.com/books?id=mgwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT808 1 1113173673 The cry of the Indian "Insurgent" to-day is "Shiksha," (education,) education in all its phases and branches, both extensive and intensive; "Swadeshi," (home industries) and "Swaraj" (self-government). en w:Rabindranath Tagore Chicago, March 5, 1921 C[harles] F[reer] A[ndrews] Letters from Abroad Triplicane, Madras, Tamil Nadu S. Ganesan 5 March 1921 1924 78 https://books.google.com/books?id=AJ4QAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA78 1079137477 And yet long before this popular ebullition of excitement, I myself had given a thousand rupees, when I had not five rupees to call my own, to open a Swadeshi store and courted banter and bankruptcy. II An Instructive Dialogue 572 My work should be, and therefore is, to organise the production of handspun cloth, and to find means for the disposal of the Khadi thus produced. [...] I swear by this form of Swadeshi, because through it I can provide work to the semi-starved, semi-employed women of India. en w:Sven Beckert The Return of the Global South Empire of Cotton: A Global History New York, N.Y. w:Vintage Books 2014 November 2015 420 https://books.google.com/books?id=UyyOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA420 978-0-375-71396-5 The first Indian Industrial Conference meeting in 1905, bringing together industrialists from all over India, decided to "foster and extend the use of such manufactures in India in preference to foreign goods." That demand intersected with the emerging Swadeshi movement, which advocated Indian self-sufficiency, especially in cottons, and symbolized the confluence of cotton entrepreneurs and the emerging nationalist political elites.