Question

Write about Quit India Movement In 20 points

Answer 1

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Explanation:

• Mumbai’s Gowalia Tank Maidan also known as August Kranti Maidan is the place where Mahatma Gandhi delivered his speech marking the beginning of the Quit India Movement. Mahatma along with other leaders gathered here on August 8 and 9, 1942.
• Several national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Abdul Kalam Azad, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel were arrested.
• The first half of the movement was peaceful with demonstrations and processions. The peaceful protest was carried till Mahatma Gandhi’s release.
• The Congress was declared an unlawful association, leaders were arrested and its offices all over the country were raided and their funds were frozen.
• The Viceroy’s Council of Muslims, Communist Party and Americans supported Britishers.
• The second half of the movement was violent with raids and setting fire at post offices, government buildings and railway stations. Lord Linlithgow adopted the policy of violence.

• The British refused to grant immediate independence and stated that it could only be granted after the war ended. Finally, India got independence in 1947.

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Answer 2

Answer: 1 Quit India Movement also known as the August Movement was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the all india congress committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 9 August 1942 during world war 2 demanding an end to british rule in India.

2 After the failure of the Cripps Mission to secure indian support for the british war effort Gandhi made a call to do or die in his quit india speech delievered in Bombay on 8 August 1942 at the Gowalia Tank Maidan.

3 The all India Congress Committee launched a mass protest demanding what gandhi called an orderly british withdrawal from india.

4 Even though it was at war the british were prepared to act.

5 Almost the entire leadership of the Indian National Congress was imprisoned without trial within hours of Gandhi speech.

6 Most spent the rest of the war in prison and out of contact with the masses.

7 The british had the support of the viceroy Council of the All Indian Muslim League,the Hindu Mahasabha, the princely states, the Indian Imperial Police, the British Indian Army, and the Indian Civil service.

8 Many indian businessmen profiting from heavy wartime spending did not support the Quit Movement India.

9 Many students paid more attention to Subhash Chandra Bose who was in exile and supporting the Axis Powers.

10 The only outside support came from the Americans, as president Franklin Roosevelt pressured Prime Minister Winston Churchill to give into some of the Indian demands.

11 The quit india campaigns was effectively crushed.

12 The british refused to grant immediate independence saying it could happen only after the war had ended.

13 Sporadic Small Scale violence took place around the country and the british arrested tens of thousands of leaders keeping the imprisoned until 1945.

14 In terms of immediate objectives Quit India failed because of heavy handed suppression weak coordination and the lack of a clear cut program of action.

15 However the british government realized that India was ungovernable in the long run due to the cost of world war 2 and the question for postwar became how to exit gracefully and peacefully.

16 In 1992 the reserve bank of india issued a 1 rupee commemorative coin to mark the Golden Jubilee of the quit India Movement.