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Explain the circumstances in which Non-cooperation Movement gradually slowed down in cities.                                                                                                                             [Delhi 2008]

Answer:

The movement in cities gradually slowed down for a various reasons:

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

(ii) Similarly boycott of British institutions posed a problem because of lack of alternative Indian institutions to replace them.

(iii) So the students began to go back to government schools and lawyers returned to government courts.