How was boycott of foreign goods in the Swadeshi movement an attack on colonial economy?

Correct answer: It challenged both colonial market profit and symbolic dominance

Answer: A. A boycott is a deliberate refusal to buy selected goods. In the Swadeshi movement, refusing foreign products reduced, or aimed to reduce, the market for imported goods while encouraging people to use and produce indigenous goods. This challenged the economic benefit colonial trade brought to foreign manufacturers and merchants. It also made everyday shopping a public political statement: choosing local goods expressed support for self-reliance and opposition to colonial authority. A is correct because it includes both the material challenge to profit and the symbolic challenge to domination. B is the opposite of a boycott. C is wrong because Swadeshi encouraged local production. D is wrong because the movement had economic and political aims, not merely ritual ones. Memory cue: boycott foreign goods, build local production, express national resistance.