write the essay of the role of women of Assam in the freedom struggle of india ?
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cooperation movement (1921), the Civil Disobedience movement (1930) and the Quit India movement (1942).
Quit India movement was the third and the last struggle where Gandhiji adopted the slogan ‘Do or Die’. In 1939
the great war broke out and tension in the British camp increased after the entrance of Japan into the war at the
end of 1941. The rapid advance of the Japanese soldiers through South−east Asia forced all groups to face the
impact of an imminent Japanese invasion. China and the United States put pressure on Britain to gain full
support of India in its war efforts by granting her demands for an immediate move towards independence.
Accordingly Sir Stafford Cripps was sent to India with a proposal that as soon as the war was over steps would
be taken to set up an elected body in India to frame a constitution for a new Indian union. It means, it would
grant India a dominion status. India was not satisfied with such type of proposals that she would get freedom
after the end of the war. Gandhiji called it a “blank cheque on a failing bank.”21 For Gandhiji, the only possible
solution now appeared to be for the British to quit India. The idea had been gradually formulated into the Quit
India movement.
The congress working committee, which met at Wardha on 14th July 1942, discussed Gandhiji’s idea of
launching a mass movement in the country demanding the immediate withdrawal of the British Power from
Indian soil. It adopted a resolution to this effect, which was notified in the All India Congress Committee
(AICC) session held in Bombay on 7−8 August 1942.22 Immediately, following the adoption of the Quit India
resolution, the congress organizations both at the provincial and district levels were asked to gear themselves up
for the movement and to enroll volunteers on a large scale. Non payment of taxes and revenue, anti−war
propaganda, general strikes to hamper war production and supply, establishment of a parallel government,
defiance of the law, boycott, picketing and hunger strikes were cited as probable agenda for the future course of
action.23
Women of Assam joined the movement in large numbers. Many Satyagrahi training centers for the women
were opened in different places of Assam. It may be worth mentioning that in the Quit India movement, there
were two types of programs. One was constructive and the other one was obstructive or destructive. One section
of the population was firm in its conviction that the sequence of meetings and processions had been tedious and
fruitless. They therefore resorted to a series of underground activities which included disruption of
communication by cutting telegraph and telephone lines, sometimes even destroying bridges and railway lines
and burning government buildings. Needless to say, those freedom fighters, who had chosen this revolutionary
path, had to face untold miseries. Often they walked for days together without a wink of sleep or a morsel of
food, exposing their lives to great risks. In most urban areas the students, both boys and girls continued to play
an active part in the underground movement by not only boycotting their educational institutions but also by
21 Embree, A. T., op. cit., p 123.
22 Tara Chand, History of the Freedom Movement in India, vol. IV, New Delhi, 1983, pp 369−75.
23 Bhuyan, A. (ed), op. cit., Sarma Puzari, R. R., ‘The Upheaval of ’42 in the Brahmaputra Valley : the Path trodden by th
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