Case based Q1ans Nationalism in India

 Case: The Movement in the Towns

The movement started with the participation of the middle-class 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 Brahmas had access to.

The effects of Non-cooperation movement 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.

(A) Explain the role of the Justice Party in boycotting council

elections.

(B) How were the effects of ‘Non-cooperation movement on the

economic front’ dramatic?

(C) Explain the effect of the ‘boycott’ movement on ‘foreign

textile trade’. [CBSE 2020].