Answer:
The
experiment with Swadeshi gave Mahatma Gandhi imported ideas about using cloth
as a symbolic weapon against the British Government.
(i) As a boy from a Gujarati Bania
family, he wore a shirt with dhoti or pyjama and sometimes a coat.
(ii) When Gandhiji went to London in 1888, he cut off the tuft of his
head and dressed in Western suit, he continued the Western clothes till the
1890s.
(iii) In Durban in 1913, Gandhiji first appeared in a lungi
and kurta with his head shaved as a sign of mourning to protest against the
shooting of Indian coal miners.
(iv) On his return to India in 1915, he dressed like a Kathiawadi
peasant.
(v) In 1921, he adopted the short dhoti, sometimes with a
chadar, the form of dress he wore until his death.
Khadi was to him a sign of purity, simplicity and poverty
and also a symbol of nationalism.
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