why did the Indians boycott mill-made cloth and adopt khadi?

(i) In 1905, Lord Curzon decided to divide Bengal to control the growing opposition to British rule.
(ii) The Swadeshi movement developed and people were made to boycott British goods of all kinds and start their own industries for the manufacture of goods such as matchboxes and cigarettes’
(iii) Mass protests followed with people vowing to cleanse themselves of colonial rule.
(iv) The use of khadi was made a patriotic duty.
(v) Women were urged to throw, away their silk clothes and glass bangles and wear simple shell bangies.