Nationalists had already started arguing for swadeshi, protection of Indian industry, and the impact of the economic drain on domestic capital formation so on and so forth. |
Remember, in those days India was ruled by the license-permit-quota-raj and by swadeshi economics. |
He is of the view that by going in for swadeshi goods one is actually helping his neighbour. |
In countries practising swadeshi, economics would have a place, but would not dominate society. |
India was at last ready for a swadeshi equivalent to the New York or London Review of Books. |
It swears by swadeshi, meaning that India must be built by Indians. |