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  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. Or Explain the course of the Non-Cooperation Movement in India. Explain the social groups responsible for this movement.

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                  Various social groups which joined the Non-Cooperation Movement were (i) Middle class people in the town (ii) Plantation workers (iii) Peasants and tribal People (iv) Business class people (v) Middle Class People in the Town In towns, middle class people who consisted of students, teachers and lawyers responded to the clarion call of Non-Cooperation and boycott. They saw the movement as a passport to freedom from the foreign rule. (ii)Plantation Workers They participated in the movement with the hope that they would be free to move out of the confined space in which they had been enclosed. They hoped that Gandhi Raj was coming and everyone would be given land in their own villages. (iii) Peasants and Tribal People In various places, peasants and tribals also participated in the movement. The movement was launched against the talukdars and landlords. For them 'Swaraj' meant that they would not be required to pay land dues i.e., land revenue and the land they were cultivating would be distributed among them. When the colonial government began forcing the tribal people to contribute 'begar for road building, they revolted'. (iv) Business Class People In many places merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade. The import of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922, its value dropping from ` 102 crore to ` 57 crore.