What were the reasons for the gradual slowing down of the Non-cooperation Movement in the cities?

(i) Khadi cloth was often more expensive than the cloth produced in mills. Poor people could not afford to buy Khadi cloth.

(ii) Boycott of British institutions also posed a problem as there were no alternative Indian institutions.

(iii) So students and teachers began trickling back to the government schools.

(iv) Even lawyers joined back work in the government courts.