Q29: TPSC Prelims 2020 GS: Previous Year Question

PASSAGE 'Swadeshi' a native movement that Gandhi introduced primarily aims at Khadi and other village industries which in the long run would help making every village self sufficient and independent of its own. 'Swadeshi' is economic neighbourhood. It respects and safeguards the interest of one's neighbours, rather than distant people. For instance, 'if I wear an imported shirt, that would help a foreign merchant but make my neighbour (village weaver) without a customer, thus leaving him in poverty and hunger. This is what Gandhi opposed. He wanted to develop, economic neighbourhood among people. [Passage continues but the remainder of each line is cut off in the source PDF's own scan/margin at this point.] ...principle of 'Swadeshi' was not only relevant to the days of British India, but ... the contemporary times. Political freedom from the British yoke has not cured us ... colonial syndrome (videshi mindset). We prefer imported goods at the cost of indi[genous] ... articles. That makes Indian market poor, leading to economic disparities and co[...] Where lies the harm if one buys foreign goods only instead of home-produced ones ?