Describe briefly any three economic effects of Non-Cooperation Movement.
- THE effects of Non-Cooperation Movement on the economic front were dramatic.
- Foreign goods were boycotted.
- Liquor shops were picketed.
- Foreign cloth burnt in huge bonfire.
- The import of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922, its value dropping from ₹ 102 crore to ₹ 57 crore.
- In many places, merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods.
- People began discarding imported clothes and wearing only Indian ones.
- Production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up.