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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
SESSION 2020-21
CLASS-X
HISTORY- Ch-1- CH-2-NATIONALISM IN INDIA
Lesson Notes

Subtopic_2_ Differing Strands within the Movement

2.1 - The Movement in the Towns
2.2 Rebellion in the Countryside
2.3-Swaraj in Plantations

Sub-Topic Notes
Differing Strands NON-CO-OPERATION KHILAFAT MOVEMENT-1921-22
within the i. The movement started with middle-class participation in the
Movement -2.1 cities.
The Movement in ii. Thousands of students left government-controlled schools and
the Towns -pg-34
colleges, headmasters and teachers resigned, and lawyers gave
up their legal practices.

iii. The council elections were boycotted in most provinces except
Madras,
Economic effects:
a) Foreign goods were boycotted, liquor shops picketed, and
foreign cloth burnt in huge bonfires.
b) The import of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922, its
value dropping from Rs 102 crore to Rs 57 crore.
c) Merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or
finance foreign trade.
People began discarding imported clothes, Indian textile mills and
handlooms went up.
The Movement in the cities gradually slowed down for a variety of
reasons. Khadi cloth was expensive and no alternate Indian
institutions were there.
2.2 Rebellion in 2. Rebellion in the Countryside (Awadh)-
the Countryside In Awadh, peasants were led by Baba Ramchandra – a sanyasi who
had earlier been to Fiji as an indentured labourer. The movement here
a) Awadh- was against talukdars and landlords. The peasant movement
peasants’ demanded
movement
i. Reduction of revenue
ii. Abolition of beggar
pg-34, 35 iii. Social boycott of oppressive landlords.
In many places nai – dhobi bandhs were organised by panchayats to
deprive landlords of the services of even barbers and washer men.