How had Non-cooperation Movement spread in cities ? Explain.
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(a) The movement started with middle class participation in the cities.
(b) Thousands of students left government controlled schools and colleges.
(c) Headmasters and teachers resigned and lawyers gave up their legal practices.
(d) The council elections were boycotted in most provinces except Madras where Justice Party took part in elections.
Effects of Non-Cooperation Movement on the economic front were :
(a) Foreign goods were boycotted.
(b) Liquor shops were picketed.
(c) Foreign clothes were burnt in huge bonfires.
(d) The import of foreign cloth halved between 1921— 1922. in value the drop was from 102 crore to 57 crore.
(e) In many places merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade.
(f) The people began discarding imported clothes and wore only Indian ones.
(g) Production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up tremendously.
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.