When did non-cooperation movement slow down …

Three important reasons why the non-cooperation movement gradually slowed down in the cities are as follows:

•  Whereas mill cloth was cheap due to mass production, khadi cloth was expensive. Hence, the urban poor couldn’t abstain from using mill cloth for too long.
•  Alternative Indian institutions were slow to come up. As a result the non-cooperating Indians ultimately had to go back to British institutions.
•  As a result, the students started attending government schools again and lawyers joined back in government courts.

The Non-Cooperation Movement slowed down in the cities for various reasons like:

1. Khadi cloth was often more expensive than mass-produced mill cloth and poor people could not afford to buy it. So people could not boycott mill cloth for very long.
2. The boycott of British institutions posed a problem as there were no alternative national institutions to fulfil educational needs.
3. The students and teachers trickled to government schools. The lawyers joined government courts
4. With all these, the enthusiasm of people in the cities lost their force.