Social Science (087) — AI-generated practice question

The urban phase of the Non-Cooperation Movement slowed down due to two main reasons:

1. Khadi was expensive: Khadi cloth cost more than mass-produced mill cloth, so poor people could not afford it and could not sustain the boycott of foreign cloth for long.

1. Lack of alternative institutions: For the boycott of British schools and courts to succeed, Indian alternatives had to be established. These were slow to come up, so students and teachers drifted back to government schools and lawyers returned to government courts.

These reasons reveal that sustaining a mass boycott requires both economic accessibility and ready substitutes for what is being rejected. Without these, even enthusiastic participants are compelled to return to the system they sought to challenge.

Source: Chapter 2, Section 2.1 – The Movement in the Towns

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Examiners expect you to identify both specific reasons (khadi being expensive + lack of alternative institutions) directly from the textbook passage. The second part asking about "inherent challenges" needs a brief inference — that boycott movements require viable alternatives and economic feasibility for all classes. Don't write in bullet points if the question says "analyse" — a mix of points and a concluding inference works best for 3 marks.