Question

How did non coorporation movement start in the city

Answer 1

During the first world war, the Congress cooperated with the British. Even Gandhiji urged the Gujarati peasants to join the army, if they wanted to win Swaraj. But the events of 1919 like the Khilafat wrongs, passing of the Rowlatt Act and the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy greatly disillusioned Gandhiji. He turned from a cooperator to a non-cooperator and decided to start Non-Cooperation Movement. Non-Cooperation is 'a way of protesting in which one does not cooperate with the evil doer.' Gandhiji asked the people not to assist the foreign government to rule over them. Gandhiji said, "Non-Cooperation with evil is as much duty as is cooperation is good."

Answer 2

The movement in the cities started

with the participation of the middle

class people. Thousands if students,

teachers , principles boycotted the

imperial institutions. Lawyers gave up

their lega practice. Council elections

were boycotted in many cities, except

in madras, where the non-brahmans felt

that entering the elections was one way

of gaining power, usually the brahmans

has access to.

Middle class people started boycotting

the use of foreign goods , merchants and

traders denied trading foreign goods and

to finance foreign trade.

Due to the boycott movement production

in Indian textile mills and hamdlooms

went up. And the value of trade dropped

from rs102 crore to rs 57 crore between

1921-1922.