THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE

THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE

BY
MAHATMA GANDHI

Appreciation by
DWIJENDRANATH TAGORE

MADRAS
GANESH & CO.
1922

THE CAMBRIDGE
PRESS, MADRAS.

CONTENTS

•  Page.
• Dawn of a New Era ix
• SWADESHI
• Non-Co-operation Programme 1
• Khilafat and Swadeshi 5
• The Secret of Swaraj 8
• Swadeshi 16
• Swadeshi in the Punjab 26
• Swadeshi Stores 31
• Indian Economics 34
• How to Boycott Foreign Cloth 44
• SPINNING
• The Music of the Spinning Wheel 53
• "Handlooms or Powermills?" 58
• Hand-spinning and Hand-weaving 64
• Hand-spinning again 71
• A Plea for Spinning 76
• The Duty of Spinning 80
• The Duty of Spinning 83
• The Doctrine of Charka 85
• The Message of the Charka 87
• The Charka in the Gita 93
• Spinning as Famine Relief 97
• The Potency of the Spinning Wheel 107
• The Wheel of Fortune 110
• The Spinning Wheel 116
• APPENDICES
• I.  A Model Weaving-school 123
• I.  Spinning Department 133
• I.  The Advantage of the thin spindle 136
• I.  Hand-Looms 140
• I.  What Kind of Loom? 144
• I.  Sizing Handspun Yarn 146
• II. The Wheel of Fortune 156

DAWN OF A NEW ERA

Many critics and some friends of Mahatma Gandhi have found fault with his desire to introduce simpler methods of spinning and weaving and to do away with much of the complicated machinery of Modern Civilisation. The reason why they object is that they fear such methods mean not progress towards a higher state but relapse into a primitive condition of civilisation or even of barbarism. His