(a) Mahatma Gandhi’s dream was to clothe the whole nation in khadi. He felt khadi would be a means of erasing difference between religions and classes. But in practice, it was not possible for many people to follow his footsteps. It was difficult to achieve such a unity as desired by Mahalma Gandhi. Not many could take to the single peasant loincloth as is clear from their responses mentioned below:
(i) Nationalists such as Motilal Nehru, gave up his expensive Western-style suits and adopted the Indian dhoti and kurta. But these were not made of coarse cloth.
(ii) Babasaheb Ambedkar never gave up the Western-style suit. Many dalits began in the early 1910s to wear three-piece suits, and shoes and socks on all public occasion, as a political statement of sell-respect.
(iii). A woman from Maharashtra wrote to Mahatma Gandhi that in response to call, she had adopted wearing khadi but for poor people like her it was costly.
(iv) Sarojini Naidu and Kamala Nehru, wore coloured saris with designs, instead of
coarse. white homespun.
(b) The reasons, therefore, for not using Khadi by all can be summed up as given below:
(i) Expensive than mill-made cloth.
(ii) Difficult to obtain in remote places.
(iii) Attraction of Western-style clothing to groups of dalit converts of Christianity.
(iv) Strict social codes dress.
(v) The areas where national activities were negligible.