Discuss the different aspects of the non-cooperation movement.about 500 words
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The circumstances which led to it were as follows:-
1. The Rowlatt Act and the Punjab horrors had belied the wartime promises.
2. The reforms of 1919 with their ill-considered scheme of dyarchy had hardly satisfied few.
3. The Khilafat wrongs
4. Even those, who were willing to treat the Punjab horrors as ‘aberrations’ were soon disillusioned when they discovered that the Hunter Committee was eyewash.
Negative Aspects:
1. Surrender of Government titles and honours.
2. Congressmen not to attend Government durbars, official functions etc.
3. Triple boycott of (a) Legislatures-Central and provincial (b) Government Courts (c) Government educational institutions.
4. Boycott of foreign goods.
Constructive Aspect:
(a) Use of Swadeshi goods.
(b) Hand spinning and hand wearing.
(c) Removal of social evils like casteism and untouchability.
(d) Tolerance.
(e) Hindu-Muslim unity
(f) Collection of money for Tilak Swaraj fund.
(g) Setting up national educational institutions.
(h) The charge of Dufferin that the Congress represented the microscopic minority could never again be levied.
Progress of Non-Cooperation Movement:
1. Gandhi returned his title Kaiser-i-Hind.
2. Congressmen boycotted election.
3. Boycott of Government courts.
4. C. R. Das and Motilal left their lucrative practice.
5. Students boycotted schools and colleges, law courts.
6. Bonfire of foreign goods.
7. Congress Ashrams were opened.
8. Prince of Wales visit boycotted.
9. Picketing of shops selling foreign cloth. Value of imports of foreign cloth fell from 102 crore (1920-21) to 57 crore (1921-22). Khadi became popular.
1. The Rowlatt Act and the Punjab horrors had belied the wartime promises.
2. The reforms of 1919 with their ill-considered scheme of dyarchy had hardly satisfied few.
3. The Khilafat wrongs
4. Even those, who were willing to treat the Punjab horrors as ‘aberrations’ were soon disillusioned when they discovered that the Hunter Committee was eyewash.
Negative Aspects:
1. Surrender of Government titles and honours.
2. Congressmen not to attend Government durbars, official functions etc.
3. Triple boycott of (a) Legislatures-Central and provincial (b) Government Courts (c) Government educational institutions.
4. Boycott of foreign goods.
Constructive Aspect:
(a) Use of Swadeshi goods.
(b) Hand spinning and hand wearing.
(c) Removal of social evils like casteism and untouchability.
(d) Tolerance.
(e) Hindu-Muslim unity
(f) Collection of money for Tilak Swaraj fund.
(g) Setting up national educational institutions.
(h) The charge of Dufferin that the Congress represented the microscopic minority could never again be levied.
Progress of Non-Cooperation Movement:
1. Gandhi returned his title Kaiser-i-Hind.
2. Congressmen boycotted election.
3. Boycott of Government courts.
4. C. R. Das and Motilal left their lucrative practice.
5. Students boycotted schools and colleges, law courts.
6. Bonfire of foreign goods.
7. Congress Ashrams were opened.
8. Prince of Wales visit boycotted.
9. Picketing of shops selling foreign cloth. Value of imports of foreign cloth fell from 102 crore (1920-21) to 57 crore (1921-22). Khadi became popular.
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