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Supporting the Swadeshi Movement in India
Collage of raised-fist silhouettes over a halftone orange, yellow, and green background, featuring historic newspaper text and faint crowd imagery.
Prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement The historic Calcutta Town Hall in Kolkata, India, featuring a grand neoclassical facade with tall white columns and arched windows, built in 1813. Rabindranath Tagore Mahatma Gandhi sits cross-legged at a spinning wheel, or charkha, at Sabarmati Ashram in 1925, focused on spinning cotton.
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Supporting the Swadeshi Movement in India
A handbill urging the boycott of British-made paper and the buying of swadeshi...
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Prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement
(From left) Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Bipin Chandra Pal.
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Town Hall, Kolkata, West Bengal
The Swadeshi Movement was launched at the Town Hall in Calcutta (now Kolkata, West...
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Rabindranath Tagore
Indian poet and independence activist Rabindranath Tagore was an influential figure...
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Gandhi at the spinning wheel
The charkha, or indigenous spinning wheel, was popularized by Mahatma Gandhi,...
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