6. Read the given text and answer the following questions. The movement started with middle-class participation in the cities. Thousands of students left government-controlled schools and colleges, headmasters and teachers resigned, and lawyers gave up their legal practices. The council elections were boycotted in most provinces except Madras, where the Justice Party, the party of the non-Brahmans, felt that entering the council was one way of gaining some power - something that usually only Brahmans had access to. The effects of non-cooperation on the economic front were more dramatic. Foreign goods were boycotted, liquor shops picketed, and foreign cloth burnt in huge bonfires. The import of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922, its value dropping from Rs 102 crore to Rs 57 crore. In many places merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade. As the boycott movement spread, and people began discarding imported clothes and wearing only Indian ones, production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up. But this movement in the cities gradually slowed down for a variety of reasons. Khadi cloth was often more 1 expensive than massproduced mill cloth and poor people could not afford to buy it. Similarly the boycott of British institutions posed a problem.
a 6.1 Explain the role of Justice Party in boycotting council elections.
6.2 Explain the effect of the boyctt movement on foreign textile trade?
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Answer:
a)6.1) The first election to Madras Presidency after the organization of dyarchical system of government by the Government of India Act, 1935.
The council elections were not boycotted in Madras where the Justice party was leading .
Non Brahmans did not join the non cooperation group, nor did it boycott elections, which encouraged the interests of the Justice party
The Indian National Congress party said that council elections was the way of getting power and promote interests which only Brahmins had access to.
6.2) Effect of boycott movement on foreign textile trade:
(i) The import of foreign cloth halved.
(ii) Merchants & traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade.
(iii) Indian textile mills & handloom went up.
6.2) Effect of boycott movement on foreign textile trade:
(i) The import of foreign cloth halved.
(ii) Merchants & traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade.
(iii) Indian textile mills & handloom went up.