INDIA
Pick#....................NL
Denomination ....5 Rupees
Date.....................
Condition............UNC
Comments.......... Perforation on left border where removed from pack. Gandhi on front. Local currency used for purchase of Khadi. .
The term khādī or khaddar (Devanagari: खद्दर, Nastaliq: کھدّر) means cotton. khādī is Indian handspun and hand-woven cloth. The raw materials may be cotton, silk, or wool, which are spun into threads on a spinning wheel called a charkha. It is a versatile fabric, cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Khadi is also a whole movement started by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Khadi movement aimed at boycotting foreign goods and promoting Indian goods. Mahatma Gandhi began promoting the spinning of khādī for rural self-employment and self-reliance (instead of using cloth from Britain) in 1920s India thus making khadi an integral part and icon of the Swadeshi movement. The freedom struggle revolved around the use of khādī fabrics and the dumping of foreign-made clothes. When some people complained about the costliness of khadi to Mahatma Gandhi, he started wearing only loincloth. Thus it symbolized the political ideas and independence itself, and to this day most politicians in India are seen only in khādī clothing. The flag of India is only allowed to be made from this material.
Rupee = Rupee = from Sanskrit word "Rupya" - Silver.
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