Q 10 - Read the source given below and answer the following questions:
The 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.
10.1 Explain the role of Justice Party in boycotting of council elections.
10.2 How was effects of ‘Non-cooperation on the economic front’ dramatic?
10.3 Explain the effect of ‘Boycott’ movement on ‘ foreign textile trade.’
10.4 Thousands of ______ left government controlled schools and colleges and
_______ gave up their legal practices.
Answers
Answer:
1.The 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.
2.The effects of non-cooperation on the economic front were more dramatised. Foreign goods were boycotted and eliminated from the markets. Liquor shops were picketed and foreign cloth was burnt in large bonfires. ... The value of these goods drastically dropped from Rs 102 crore to Rs 57 crore.
3.Effect of boycott movement on foreign textile trade: (i) The import of foreign cloth halved. (ii) Merchants & traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade. (iii) Indian textile mills & handloom went up.
4.Thousands of students left government controlled schools and colleges and teachers gave up their legal practices.