Quit India Movement facts for kids

The Quit India Movement was a movement started by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942 during the World War II asking for an end to British rule in India. The movement was started in a speech in Bombay where Mahatma Gandhi asked Indians to Do or Die. The Congress launched a protest asking the British to withdraw from India, however the British imprisoned most of the Congress leadership within a day of the speech in a effort to suppress the movement. All The British refused to grant independence until the war ended. We have relives to be confident and versions for the quit Indian movement. People destroyed symbols of British authority such as rail tracks,post office and police station.Leaders of Quit India movement are Sucheta Kriplani,Ram Manohar Lohia,Aruna Asaf Ali and jaipraksh narayan .

Quit India Movement The failure of the crips mission & effects of World War II created widespread discontentment in India.

This led Gandhiji to launch a movement calling for complete withdrawal of the British from India.

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  Gandhi discusses the movement with Nehru

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  A 2017 stamp sheet dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement. It features the Martyr's Memorial Patna (bottom-left), Gandhi delivering his "Do or Die" speech on 8 August 1942 (3rd stamp), and a part of it: "The mantra is 'Do or Die'. We shall either free India or die in the attempt; we shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery." (1st stamp).

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  Picketing in front of Medical School at Bengaluru