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An employee checking flags at the Indian National Flag Production Center in the southern state of Karnataka.Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images
Civil servants in Calcutta, now called Kolkata, opposed a plan to replace the nylon kurta, that loose, long blouse worn by many Indian government workers, with kurtas made of cotton khadi cloth. Millions of government workers wearing home-spun khadi could help build India's village industries. It seemed such a right thing to do.
So government workers marched to the center of the city--and shucked off their kurtas. They chanted in their underwear,"Hell, no, khadi cloth has got to go!"
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