Explain the terms "swadeshi" and "boycott"?

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Swadeshi was a particular Indian form of boycott, which originated in Ireland against Captain Boycott. "The Swadeshi (Bengali: ???????, Hindi: ???????) movement, part of the Indian independence movement, was a successful economic strategy to remove the British Empire from power and improve economic conditions in India through following principles of swadeshi (self-sufficiency). Strategies of the swadeshi movement involved boycotting British products and the revival of domestic-made products and production techniques." from http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Swadeshi "A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons. Etymology The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and is derived from the name of Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in Lough Mask House, in County Mayo, Ireland, who was subject to social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne offered his tenants a ten percent reduction in their rents. In September of that year, protesting tenants demanded a twenty five percent reduction, which Lord Erne refused. Boycott then attempted to evict eleven tenants from the land. Charles Stewart Parnell, in a speech in Ennis prior to the evictions, proposed that when dealing with greedy landlords and agents, rather than resorting to violence, everyone in the locality should ostracise them. This policy was first applied to Boycott. Despite the short-term economic hardship to those undertaking this action, Boycott soon found himself isolated - his workers stopped work in the fields and stables, as well as in his house. Local businessmen stopped trading with him, and the local postman refused to deliver mail." -from http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/boycott Dec 09 12, 11:18 PM