Question

List all the different social groups which joined the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1921. Then choose any three and write about their hopes and struggles to show why they joined the movement.

Answer 1

• The different social groups that joined the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1921 were the urban middle class, comprising lawyers, teachers and headmasters; students; peasants; tribals; and workers.
• Peasants, tribals and workers joined the movement from the countryside. They did so with hopes of self-emancipation.
• Peasants rebelled against talukdars and landlords who demanded high rents and also forced them to do begar or free labour.
• Tribal peasants revolted against the enclosure of large forest tracts by the British government, which left them devoid of a livelihood as well as traditional rights.
• Plantation workers, on the other hand, desired freedom to move about and retain links with the villages they came from.
• All three believed that Gandhi Raj would come with the Non-Cooperation Movement, and this would mark an end to their sorrows.

Hence, they joined the anti-colonial struggle.