(in present-day India) produced within the country; not imported
noun
2.
(in British India) the encouragement of domestic production and boycott of foreign goods as part of the campaign for independence
Word origin
C20: from Bengali svadesī, from Sanskrit svadeśin, from sva one's own + deśa country
Swadeshi in American English
(swəˈdeiʃi)
noun
a political movement in British India that encouraged domestic production and the boycott of foreign, esp. British, goods as a step toward home rule
Word origin
[1900–05; ‹ Hindi or Bengali svadesī, equiv. to sva- self, own + desī native]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, burnout, cathode-ray tube, geopolitics, hydroplane