Quit India Movement
The Cripps Mission had failed, and on 8 August 1942, Gandhi made a call to 'Do or Die' in his Quit India speech delivered in Bombay at the Gowalia Tank Maidan.The All-India Congress Committee launched a mass protest demanding what Gandhi called “An Orderly British Withdrawal” from India.
Reasons for Struggle
- The failure of the Cripps Mission triggered off the Quit India Movement.
- There was popular discontent because of rising prices and shortage of rice, salt, etc. and because of factors such as commandeering of boats in Bengal and Orissa. There were fears of Britain following a scorched earth ....
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Prelims Special
- 1 INA Trials and Mutiny in the Forces
- 2 Indian National Army
- 3 National Movement: 1939-1942
- 4 The Years from 1932-34
- 5 Government Response
- 6 Impact of the Salt Satyagraha
- 7 Multiple Forms of Upsurge
- 8 Mass Civil Disobedience
- 9 Gandhi’s Instructions for Future Action
- 10 The Years Of Stagnation - Swarajists And No-Changers
- 11 Decline of the Movement
- 12 Method and Spread of the Movement
- 13 Cause of the Non-Cooperation Movement
- 14 Gandhi’s Struggle in India
- 15 How South Africa Evolved Gandhi?
- 16 Gandhi’s Struggle in South Africa
- 17 Home Rule League Movement, 1914
- 18 Ghadar Movement, 1914
- 19 First World War and Indian Nationalism
- 20 Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism
- 21 Congress Split at Surat (1907)
- 22 Differences in Moderates and Extremists
- 23 Anti-Partition Campaign and Swadeshi Movement under Extremist
- 24 Partition of Bengal (1905)
- 25 Reasons for Rise of Militant Nationalism
- 26 Nationalist Movement (1858-1905)
- 27 Early Indian Responses to British Rule
- 28 Rise of British Empire in India
- 29 European Settlements and British Conquest of India
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- 31 Gurdwara Reform Movements
- 32 Temple Entry Movements
- 33 Working Class Movement
- 34 Peasant Activity in Provinces
- 35 Peasant Movements
- 36 Timeline: Evolution of the Two-Nation Theory
- 37 Communalism in India
- 38 Revolutionary Terrorists
- 39 Cripps Mission
- 40 Congress Rule in Provinces
- 41 The Revolt of 1857
- 42 Commercial Policies of British
- 43 Land Revenue Policies of British
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