Khadi: India's Hand-Spun Strength
Textile Value Chain|July 2020
India’s ideology for independence has had its own shares of ups and down in the Indian Market.
Ms. Prachi Ghelot
Khadi: India's Hand-Spun Strength

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The value of the age old fabric woven from hand-spun yarns, once not so popular owing to the cheap replication technologies, it is once again gaining demand in the Indian market given the new reforms of Indian government to support traditional crafts of the nation. The ball is in the citizen’s court now, to be aware and spread awareness of Khadi’s representation of India’s rich heritage.

Khadi – the word with which we are very familiar, but vaguely know its relevance and importance. Khadi word evokes imagery of Mahatma Gandhi spinning on his spinning wheel and the Swadeshi movement he drove. For quite a while khadi was related to the nation’s independence battle.

Khadi represented India’s aspirations of independence from colonialism and economic freedom which wasn’t achieved very easily. It exemplified the national trustworthiness and just as went about as a marker for harmony between communities and spiritual modesty. Khadi has been India’s ideology.

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