Describe the extent of peoples participation in the non cooperation movement
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the non- cooperation movement in the towns:
--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.
--people began discarding imported clothes and wearing only Indian ones, production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up
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The following is the extent of the Non-Cooperation Movement in India:
1. The movement gets started with the participation of the middle-class; as they submitted back all the honors’ and titles awarded by the British government.
2. Thousands of people boycotted their services, congressional assemblies and courts. Moreover, stu-dents left their colleges and schools.
3. Traders and merchants also contributed the movement refusing to accept foreign products or finance foreign trade.
4. People adopted the title of Swadeshi and thus began boycotting the foreign manufactured goods, burnt foreign made clothes and picketed liquor shops etc.
5. Peasants of various states such as Andhra Pradesh and Awadh etc ejected the protest movement against the landlords and talukdars.