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Gandhi, and he was convicted that was the main reason that the Indian

civil disobedience was the way that textile industry collapsed, which

Indians would be able to become was one of the leading industries

independent from England. He of the Indian country for centuries

believed that the only reason that until the advent of colonialism.

the British were able to establish Gandhi encouraged everyone

colonial rule in India was because to spin their own clothes and

of the cooperation that the Indians boycott English products so that

showed to the British. He sought to they would be more independent

break this cooperation. from English influence. A famous

Some of the famous non-violent picture depicts him weaving his

civil disobedience protests that own clothes during in prison, where

Gandhi organized was the burning he was kept due to disobeying the

of English made clothes, which English government's orders not to