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To encourage independence from Britian. The home production of clothing would reduce India's role as a market for british exports as well as change the balance of trade between the two countries.

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he opposed the high prices of British wool and wanted Indians to make their own clothes

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You had to buy clothes from England, so he decided to fight in a non-volence way!

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Why do gandhiji pormote tocharkha

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Q: Why did Gandhi promote the idea of Indians spinning and weaving their own cloth?
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