(a) Analyse three main impacts of Non-Cooperation Movement on the economic front.

(i) Foreign goods were boycotted.

(ii) Liquor shops were picketed.

(iii) Foreign cloth was burnt in huge bonfires.

(iv) The import of foreign cloth halved.

(v) In many places merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade.

(vi) Production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up.

(b) Why did the Non-Cooperation Movement start slowing down in the cities? Analyze three causes.

(i) Khadi cloth was often more expensive than mass produced mill cloth and poor people could not afford to buy it.

(ii) The boycott of British institutions posed a problem.

(iii) For the movement to be successful, alternative Indian institutions had to be set up so that they could be used in place of the British ones.

(iv) These were slow to come up.

(v) Students and teachers began trickling back to government schools and lawyers joined back work in government courts.