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The Indian nationalist, Mahatma Gandhi, advocated theswadeshi movement as a protest against British rule in India in the first half of the twentieth century. The movement stressed the manufacture of Indian goods at home, especially homespun cloth, as opposed to buying British manufactured goods.
Why did Indians decide to use this strategy?

to make it less profitable for the British to exploit India through colonial trade

to prevent the British from establishing a monopoly in the cotton industry

to prepare for the British to abandon India as a colony

to limit British control of India’s domestic politics