How did Non-Cooperation Movement start with participation of middle class people in the cities? Explain its impact on the economic front.
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Points to Remember
- students left schools and colleges, and headmasters and teachers resigned.
- Council elections were boycotted except in Madras.
- Foreign clothes burnt . Import of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922
- Refused to trade in foreign goods
- Indian textiles and Handlooms went up.
Answer to be written in the exam
The movement started with middle-class participation in the cities .
- Thousands of students left government -controlled schools and colleges and headmasters and teachers also resigned from their position.
- The council elections were boycotted in most of the 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 only Brahmans had access to.
- Foreign clothes were burnt in the bonfire. The import of f oreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922 , dropping value from Rs 102 crores to Rs 57 crore .
- Merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods to show their support in the non - cooperation movement.
- People began discarding imported clothes and wearing only Indian ones. Production o f Indian textiles and Handlooms went up.
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