How did non-coorperation movement start with participation of middle class people in the cities?
Explain its impact on the economic front.
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Non cooperation movement started by participation of middle class people especially women and students. It was for the agitation on Jallianwala massacre. The impact on econmical front is only for the first world war
The Non-coorperation movement started with the participation and middle class people in the cities. Large numbers of students left government controlled school and colleges, headmasters and teachers resigned and many lawyer of the country gave up their legal practices. The Elections of council were boycotted in most Provinces of the country except Madras, where the justice party, the party of non-Brahmans, felt that entering the council was one way of gaining some power which was usually Brahmans had the access. The effect of non-coorperation 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 reduced to half between 1921 and 1922, its value droped from 102 crore to 51 crore. In many places z merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade. As the boycott movement spread throughout the country, people began to discard imported cloths and started wearing only Indian weaved cloths, production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up.