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swadeshi n

(India, economics, politics, also attributively) A policy of nationalist self-sufficiency in India, involving the revival and promotion of domestic production and (originally) the boycott of British products. Today is India’s Independence Day, which commemorates the date when it ceased to be part of the British Empire in 1947.

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