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Read the source given below and answer the questions that follows:
Source : The Movement in the Towns
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.
21.1. Explain the role of ‘Justice Party’ in boycotting of council elections.
21.2. How was the effects of ‘non-cooperation on the economic front’ dramatic?
21.3. Explain the effect of ‘Boycott’ movement on ‘foreign textile trade.’
Solution 21.1
(i) The first election to Madras Presidency after the organization of dyarchical system of government by the Government of India Act, 1935.
(ii) The council elections were not boycotted in Madras where the Justice party was leading .
(iii) Non Brahmans did not join the non cooperation group, nor did it boycott elections, which encouraged the interests of the Justice party
(iv) The Indian National Congress party said that council elections was the way of getting power and promote interests which only Brahmins had access to.
(i) Fall in imports : 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.
(ii) Boycott of Foreign goods : In many places merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade.
(iii) Boost for Indian industry : 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.
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.
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