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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
     	
