Document Text Contents
Page 1
Quit India Movement
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quit India Act (Hindi: भारत छोडो आन्दोलन Bhārat Chhodo Āndolan), or
the August Movement (August Kranti) was a civil disobedience movement
launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call
for 'Satyagraha' . The All-India Congress Committee proclaimed a mass
protest demanding what Gandhi called "an orderly British withdrawal" from
India. The call for determined, but passive resistance appears in his call
to Do or Die, issued on 8 August at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai on
year 1942.
The British were prepared to act. Almost the entire INC leadership, and not
just at the national level, was imprisoned without trial within hours
after Gandhi's speech—at least 60,000 people. Most spent the rest of the
war in prison and out of contact with the masses. The British had the
support of the Viceroy's Council (which had a majority of Indians), of the
Muslims, the Communist Party, the princely states, the Imperial and state
police, the Indian Army, and the Indian Civil Service. Many Indian
businessmen were profiting from heavy wartime spending and did not
support Quit India. Many students paid more attention to Subhas Chandra
Bose, who was in exile and supporting the Axis. The only outside support
came from the Americans, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Gandhi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-India_Congress_Committee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_resistance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowalia_Tank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Congress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quit_India_speech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy%27s_Executive_Council
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Police_Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Police_Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Civil_Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
Page 2
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill to give in to Indian demands. The Quit
India campaign was effectively crushed.
[1]
The British refused to grant immediate independence, saying it could
happen only after the war ended.
Procession view at Bangalore
Sporadic small-scale violence took place around the country but the British
arrested tens of thousands of leaders, keeping them imprisoned until 1945,
and suppressed civil rights, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. In
terms of immediate objectives Quit India failed because of heavy-handed
suppression, weak coordination and the lack of a clear-cut programme of
action. However, the British government realized that India was
ungovernable in the long run, and the question for postwar became how to
exit gracefully and peacefully.
\World War II and Indian involvement[edit]
In 1939 Indian nationalists were angry that British Governor-General of
India, Lord Linlithgow, had without consultation with them brought India into
the war. The Muslim League supported the war, but Congress was divided.
Public lecture at Basavanagudi, Bangalore with Late C.F.Andrews*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quit_India_Movement#cite_note-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quit_India_Movement&action=edit§ion=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hope,_2nd_Marquess_of_Linlithgow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Freer_Andrews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
Quit India Movement
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quit India Act (Hindi: भारत छोडो आन्दोलन Bhārat Chhodo Āndolan), or
the August Movement (August Kranti) was a civil disobedience movement
launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call
for 'Satyagraha' . The All-India Congress Committee proclaimed a mass
protest demanding what Gandhi called "an orderly British withdrawal" from
India. The call for determined, but passive resistance appears in his call
to Do or Die, issued on 8 August at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai on
year 1942.
The British were prepared to act. Almost the entire INC leadership, and not
just at the national level, was imprisoned without trial within hours
after Gandhi's speech—at least 60,000 people. Most spent the rest of the
war in prison and out of contact with the masses. The British had the
support of the Viceroy's Council (which had a majority of Indians), of the
Muslims, the Communist Party, the princely states, the Imperial and state
police, the Indian Army, and the Indian Civil Service. Many Indian
businessmen were profiting from heavy wartime spending and did not
support Quit India. Many students paid more attention to Subhas Chandra
Bose, who was in exile and supporting the Axis. The only outside support
came from the Americans, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Gandhi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-India_Congress_Committee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_resistance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowalia_Tank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Congress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quit_India_speech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy%27s_Executive_Council
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Police_Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Police_Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Civil_Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
Page 2
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill to give in to Indian demands. The Quit
India campaign was effectively crushed.
[1]
The British refused to grant immediate independence, saying it could
happen only after the war ended.
Procession view at Bangalore
Sporadic small-scale violence took place around the country but the British
arrested tens of thousands of leaders, keeping them imprisoned until 1945,
and suppressed civil rights, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. In
terms of immediate objectives Quit India failed because of heavy-handed
suppression, weak coordination and the lack of a clear-cut programme of
action. However, the British government realized that India was
ungovernable in the long run, and the question for postwar became how to
exit gracefully and peacefully.
\World War II and Indian involvement[edit]
In 1939 Indian nationalists were angry that British Governor-General of
India, Lord Linlithgow, had without consultation with them brought India into
the war. The Muslim League supported the war, but Congress was divided.
Public lecture at Basavanagudi, Bangalore with Late C.F.Andrews*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quit_India_Movement#cite_note-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quit_India_Movement&action=edit§ion=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hope,_2nd_Marquess_of_Linlithgow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Freer_Andrews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN2.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QUITIN1.JPG
