The die was cast for India’s development path on July 22, 1947, when India’s Constituent Assembly resolved to replace Mahatma Gandhi’s spinning wheel, or charka , with the emperor Ashoka’s wheel of dharma on the Indian national flag. The move symbolically rejected what the incoming government abandoned upon assuming office: Gandhi’s vision of an equitable and sustainable agrarian society based on self-sufficient, pared-down consumption.
1947年7月22日对印度的发展来说是重要的一天，当时的国民代表大会决定把阿育王时代的达摩法轮放在国旗上，以取代圣雄甘地的转轮，即轻纺车，这是一个重要的信号，它标志着政府放弃了圣雄甘地一直倡导的理念：公平，持续性的农耕社会，自给自足，节制欲望的消费模式。