Quit India Movement 1942

Quit India movement or the India August Movement was began 9 August 1942. on

Failure of the Cripps mission was the immediate cause for launching quit India Movement. Arrival of the Japanese Armies on the Indian soil, rise in the price and shortage in food supplies and difference in opinion within the congress are the other factors that led to quit India movement.

On July 1942, the Indian National Congress passed a resolution demanding complete independence from the British government. 8 August The All India congress committee met at Bombay on 1942 passed the famous quit India resolution. Do or Die’ On that occasion Gandhiji gave his famous slogan of ‘(‘Karo ya Maro’). The term “quit India” was coined by an American journalist while interviewing Gandhiji. 9th August 1942 On the congress was banned and all its prominent leaders were arrested. A number of leaders like Jai Prakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia Aruna Asaf Ali, Achyut Patwardhan and Sucheta Kripalani went to Underground and carried on the freedom struggle from there. A short lived movement though it was achieved two important things. Firstly it had given utterance to India's anger against imperialism and her determination to be free. Secondly after the revolt of 1942 there was no doubt left in the mind of the British rulers that the days of imperialist domination of India were strictly numbered.