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A blue khadi kurta.. Khadi (pronounced, Khādī), derived from khaddar, [1] [2] [3] is a hand-spun and woven natural fibre cloth promoted by Gandhi as swadeshi (of homeland) for the freedom struggle of India and the term is used throughout the Indian subcontinent [4] [5] The first piece of the hand-woven cloth was made in the Sabarmati Ashram of Gandhi during 1917–18.
Devidutt Pant [1] (11 April 1907 – 14 April 1982) was an Indian freedom fighter and founder of Bikaner Khadi Bhandar in Bikaner city of Rajasthan state in India. He was born in Khantoli ( District Bageshwar , Uttarakhand ) in the middle Himalayan range of Kumaun district located at 5000’ altitude.
The Khadi and Village Industries Commission then uses these funds to implement its programs either directly - Through its 29 [10] state offices, by directly funding Khadi and Village institutions and co-operatives, or indirectly through 33 [11] Khadi and Village Industries Boards, which are statutory bodies formed by the state governments ...
1948 (13-18 Jan) 123 hours Third Hindu-Muslim unity fast for restoration of communal peace. Gandhi was reading the dreadful news of the Kashmir war, while at the same time fasting to death because Muslims could not live safely in Delhi. Meeting Maulana Azad, Gandhi laid down seven conditions for breaking his fast. These were:
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An award-winning California teacher broke down in tears in court as she confessed to sexually abusing two of her students, ages 11 and 12. Jacqueline Ma, who was named “Teacher of the Year” in ...
Khadidjatou Fall, generally called Khadi Fall (born 1948), is a Senegalese author and former government minister. [1] She came from an educated family who spoke the Wolof language. [citation needed] Thanks in part to their efforts she went to some of Senegal's finer schools which prepared her for study in Europe.
Harijan (lit.children of God, a term coined by Narsinh Mehta) was a weekly magazine founded by Mahatma Gandhi that was published from 1933 to 1955 except for a hiatus during the Quit India movement of the 1940s.