The Swadeshi movement was a campaign of the Indian independence struggle that urged Indians to boycott British-made goods and to support local industries and handicrafts. The word means of one's own country. Its leaders included Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai and Aurobindo Ghose, and it spread widely in Bengal, where it combined economic protest with a surge of patriotic poetry, song and education, with Rabindranath Tagore among its cultural voices. Participants burned imported cloth, set up national schools and revived hand-spinning and weaving. The movement led to splits between moderates and extremists in the Indian National Congress, and its ideas were later taken up by Mahatma Gandhi, who made homespun khadi cloth a symbol of self-reliance.
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