Question

Explain the programmes, event and effect of Non-Co-operation Movement.

Answer 1

Dear Student

The programmes of the non-cooperation movement include:

1. Renouncing titles that the government had awarded, and boycotting of army, courts, legislative councils, civil services and police.

​​​​​​2.Boycotting foreign goods.

3.Pickeing of liquor shops

4.Bonfires of foreign cloth was encouraged and emphasis was laid on using of Khadi cloth and swadeshi goods and commodities.

Non cooperation movement:
1. Non cooperation movement started by Gandhiji was based on non – violence and it was a large scale mass movement. It attracted common people from all social groups
2. It was based on denial of cooperation to the government institutions, boycott of foreign goods​​​​​​​.
3.From the cities, the Non-Cooperation Movement spread to the countryside. It drew into its fold the struggles of peasants and tribals which were developing in different parts of India in the years after the war.
4. Plantation workers took part in the agitation hoping they would get the right to move freely in and outside the plantations and get land in their own villages.For plantation workers swaraj meant freedom and right to move freely retaining a link with their villages.

Effects of Non Cooperation Movement:
1- Foreign goods were boycotted, liquor shops were picketed, foreign cloth was burnt in huge bonfires.
2- The value of imported cloth halved between 1921-1922, it's value decreasing from 102 crore to 57 crore.It boosted the demand for indigenous products like Khadi.
3- In many paces merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade.
4- People began discarding foreign cloth and wearing indian ones, the production of indian hand mills went up.

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