English: pinakini satygraha Asram started by Mahatma Gandhi in 1921 in the part of Gandhi's philosophy was the principle of 'swadeshi', which, in effect, means local self-sufficiency in independence movement. Gandhi's vision of a free India was not a nation-state but a confederation of self-governing, self-reliant, self-employed people living in village communities, deriving their right livelihood from the products of their homesteads. Maximum economic and political power - including the power to decide what could be imported into or exported from the village - would remain in the hands of the village assemblies. it was in pallipadu village, nellore district, AP.