Swadeshi is not a policy we adopt because of certain compulsions. It is not merely an economic or technological industrial concept. Nor is it a negative or exclusivist approach towards other countries or people. Swadeshi is in fact the natural and necessary self-expression of a people. The basic assumption involved in Swadeshi is that every nation has a soul and an identity and it is its bounden duty to manifest the same in every walk of life. That is its destiny. Hindus have never shut our doors and lived in splendid isolation. We have the entire world, nay the entire universe before our eyes and look upon it as a family. We have the vision to declare that our “Swadesha is all the three worlds taken together” (“Swadesho Bhuvanatrayam”). The term ‘swadeshi’ was used in regular discourse from the time of the Partition of Bengal in 1905. However, the eminent historian RC Majumdar says in his India’s freedom struggle that the concept wasprevalent right from the middle of the 19th century. Gopal Hari Deshmukh (Lokahitavadi), Bhola Nath Chandra, Jogendra Chandra Ghosh and Maharishi Dayananda were among its earliest proponents. The first bonfire of foreign clothes that shook the british Empire was carried out by Veer Savarkar in his student days with the blessings of Lokamanya Tilak. The second phase of its propagation was by Gandhi In modern times, Sswadeshi movement is meant to establish a socio-economic and political order based on the Hindu view of life and value system, a movement against Westernization with its dangerous spread of vulgar consumerism.