How did the ‘Non-Cooperation Movement’ spread in cities across the country? Explain its effects on the economic front.(All India - 2015)
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Because of the mass media and news channel
a. In January 1921, the Non-Cooperation Khilafat
movement was started in which different social
groups participated with different aspirations
from the Swaraj. This movement was started
with the middle class people of the towns and
cities. The students left the schools and colleges,
the teachers and headmasters resigned and the
lawyers gave up their practices.
b. The council elections were also boycotted except
in Madras. The Justice Party which was a party of
the non-Brahmins in Madras felt that power can
be acquired only through the council elections.
c. The economic effects of the Non¬Cooperation
Movement - foreign goods were boycotted,
liquor shops were picketed, foreign clothes were
burnt, import of the foreign clothes came down
by half, the value of import dropped, merchants
and traders refused the trade of foreign goods,
production of Indian mills and handloom rose.
d. The Non-Cooperation Movement gradually slowed
down in towns and cities because the khadi clothes
were expensive which the poor people could not
afford. There was need for Indian institutions for
the teachers, students and the lawyers but these
were very slow to come up. Thus once again people
started using the mill made British clothes and
the students, teachers and the lawyers rejoined
their respective institutions.