Explain the term "boycott".

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The refusal to perform any work.

Going on a hunger strike.

The refusal to deal with and associate with people and participate in activities.

The refusal to go to the workplace.

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The term "boycott" means refusal to deal with and associate with people and participate in an activity. Indians boycott, buy and use foreign goods. Mahatma Gandhi launched a swadeshi movement, along with a boycott movement, alongside the swadeshi movement on August 7, 1905, in Calcutta. The Swadeshi movement, or the boycott movement, included products made in India; for example, the use of khadi and the burning of British-made goods. The cause of this Swadeshi movement and the boycott movement was the colonial government's decision to partition Bengal in July 1905. The Indian National Congress initiated this movement.

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