Question

How did people participate in the Non-Co-operation movement? What were the limitations of this movement?

Answer 1

the people participate in non co-operation movement in the following ways:-

1. it gained momentum through 1921-22
2. people lit public bonn fires of foregien cloth
3. titles surrendered and legislative buoycotted
4. many lawyers left their practices.
5. thousands of students left government control school and colleges.

Answer 2

Answer:

The Non-Cooperation 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.

There were four main causes of the Non-Cooperation Movement:

• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and Resultant Punjab Disturbances.

•Dissatisfaction with Montagu •Chelmsford Reforms.

• Rowlatt Act.

• Khilafat Agitation.

Boycot of foreign cloth, schools, colleges, courts by lawyers was an integral part of the Non-Cooperation Movement. But the Movement was gradually slow down and due to the following drawbacks.Khadi cloth was more expensive, less durable and expensive to maintain than mill made cloth. The poor could not afford to buy it and therefore could not boycott mill made cloth for long.

But the Movement was gradually slow down and due to the following drawbacks. Khadi cloth was more expensive, less durable and expensive to maintain than mill made cloth. The poor could not afford to buy it and therefore could not boycott mill made cloth for long. Similarly boycott of institutions posed a problem.

The native institutions were slow to come up. Thus students and lawyers began joining back the British Institutions again slowly.