Question 14 Marks
The movement started with middle-class participation in the cities. Thousands of students left governmentcontrolled 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 ₹ 102 crore to ₹ 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, the production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up.
i. Explain the meaning of picketing liquor shops.
ii. When did the Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movement begin?
iii. Why did the movement in the cities gradually slow down?
i. Explain the meaning of picketing liquor shops.
ii. When did the Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movement begin?
iii. Why did the movement in the cities gradually slow down?
Answer
View full question & answer→i. Picketing is a form of demonstration or protest by which people block the entrance to a shop, factory, or office.
ii. The Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movement began in January 1921.
iii. The movement in the cities gradually slowed down for a variety of reasons: Khadi being expensive was unaffordable was poor people, lack of alternative Indian institutions posed a problem in boycotting British institutions.
ii. The Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movement began in January 1921.
iii. The movement in the cities gradually slowed down for a variety of reasons: Khadi being expensive was unaffordable was poor people, lack of alternative Indian institutions posed a problem in boycotting British institutions.