Question

2 drawbacks of non cooperation movement

Answer 1

Boycot of foreign cloth, schools, colleges, courts by lawyers was an integral part of the Non-Cooperation Movement. But the Movement was gradually slow down and due to the following drawbacks.

Khadi cloth was more expensive, less durable and expensive to maintain than mill made cloth. The poor could not afford to buy it and therefore could not boycott mill made cloth for long.

Similarly boycott of institutions posed a problem. For the movement to be successful alternative Indian institutions were slow to come up. So teachers and students began tricking back to government schools. Lawyers too joined back work in government courts.

Chauri Chaura incident finally made Gandhi call off the movement, as he realized that people have not been able to understand his idea of Satyagraha.