“God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare.”

1928, as reported in Development Without Destruction: Economics of the Spinning Wheel, p. 97
1920s

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pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869–1948

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