recently in India, women could not inherit real property. She was trained to be
the perfect bride and must excel in domestic tasks to provide for her family such as
cooking, cleaning and spinning. In rural India, rules were set up so that so that a man
could not marry a girl from his own village, so when a girl got married, she had to leave
her village. In order to compensate the girl for her share of the land, she was given a
dowry when she married that would allow her to complete her duties as a wife,
including large sums of cash, household items and a charkha. This charkha might be
highly decorated if the girl came from a wealthy family.
Women would spin as part of their daily routine and would often get together in groups to spin and socialize (much like a quilting bee in rural America). Cotton and silk both are traditional fibers spun on the charkha. They would weave cloth or rugs from their spun yarn.
When Gandhi came along, India was under British colonial rule. Cotton was grown in India where the men would harvest it and the British would ship this cotton back to England and have it woven and spun into cloth which was then shipped back to India and sold at a price that the people could not afford. In order to resist against the British,
Gandhi encouraged the men to spin (which was traditionally women's work) and weave their own cloth and wear clothing made from this homespun cloth. This cloth was called khaddar or khadi (meaning rough).
As part of the passive resistance movement, Gandhi would often spin in public. Since the traditional charkha was typically bulky and difficult to move, he needed a charkha that could be transported easily. He held a contest to design a charkha that would be compact, portable and affordable. The box design of charkha won that contest. Tradition states that the accelerator wheel was an idea of Gandhi's.
This experiment of Gandhi eventually forced the British to leave India because the men were not harvesting the cotton and the use of khaddar cut out the market for the British made cloth. India gained economic independence from England. This is why some Indian money has a charkha on it and the Congress Party in India placed a charkha on their flag.
And later on when people uses khadi as their clothes this becomes in use of people to spin charkhe to spin yarn to make cotton in their routine practice.
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The Indians Called Gandhi...Gandhi's real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Indians call him Mahatma Gandhi and also call him Bapu(Father).
because it created a sense of inferiority in the mind of Indians .It made them see western education as superior and destroyed the pride they in their own language.There was poison in this educaton said mahatma gandhi.It was sinful and enslaved Indians.
I am just putting this here because someone said this was the same as the South Americans but this is India Indians.
Yes, he was originally named Mohandas Ghanhi, but later on Indians had begun to call him Mahatma, which means "great soul".
Mahatma or Bapu.
One of the most well known symbols of India's independence movement was the spinning wheel. The type of spinning wheel used is called a Charkha which is one of the oldest spinning wheels to exist. The symbol was chosen by Mahatma Gandhi as he wanted it to represent and encourage the people of India to be self sufficient and independent. For many years the Charkha was used on the national flag of India before being simplified into the Dharmacakra wheel of Buddhism on it's final independence flag.
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The Indians Called Gandhi...Gandhi's real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Indians call him Mahatma Gandhi and also call him Bapu(Father).
Mahatma Gandhi lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and social protest.
Mahatma Gandhi Srinivasa Lyengar Ramanujan
Mahatma Ghandi.A. The long marchB. The Amritsar MassacreC. The balfour declarationD.The pan-african congressThe answer is B. The Amritsar Massacre.By Dustin Wood
because it created a sense of inferiority in the mind of Indians .It made them see western education as superior and destroyed the pride they in their own language.There was poison in this educaton said mahatma gandhi.It was sinful and enslaved Indians.
I am just putting this here because someone said this was the same as the South Americans but this is India Indians.
Yes, he was originally named Mohandas Ghanhi, but later on Indians had begun to call him Mahatma, which means "great soul".
popularity of Gandhi among Indians, inside the party. It earned hin International reputation
it was called khadi (or khaddar as it is locally called). It is rough cotton which is home spun and woven using a traditional loom. The concept is totally swadeshi and is not dependendent on any of the higher technologies.