Our leaders' vision of independent India was based on

The passage states: 'This vision imagined to build a self-reliant nation through maximum utilization of the resources in men and materials.' Self-reliance, particularly economic self-reliance through maximum utilization of resources, was the core vision. Boycott of foreign goods was a pre-independence tactic, not a post-independence vision. Defence and employment diversification are not the central themes mentioned. Economic self-reliance is the directly stated vision.