QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT

QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT ,QUIT INDIA DAY 

• THE QUIT INDIA ACT , OR THE INDIA AUGUST MOVEMENT WAS A CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT LAUNCHED IN INDIA IN AUGUST 1942 IN RESPONSE TO GANDHI'S CALL FOR SATYAGRAHA.
• THE ALL-INDIA CONGRESS COMMITTEE PROCLAIMED A MASS PROTEST DEMANDING WHAT GANDHIJI CALLED  "AN ORDERLY BRITISH WITHDRAWAL" FROM INDIA.
• THE CALL FOR DETERMINED , BUT APPEARS IN HIS CALL TO DO OR DIE , ISSUED ON 8 AUGUST AT THE GOWALIAR TANK MAIDAN IN MUMBAI ON YEAR 1942
  
• GANDHIJI DECLARED: " LET EVERY INDIAN CONSIDER HIMSELF TI BE A FREE MAN ....MERE GOING TO JAIL WOULD NOT DO."
• THE BRITISH WERE QUICK TO ACT.ALMOST THE ENTIRE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS LEADERSHIP , AND NOT JUST AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL ,WAS IMPRISONED EARLY MORNING NEXT DAY .THE NUMBERS ACCORDING TO CERTAIN SOURCES WERE 60,000 .MANY OF THEM WERE RELEASED ONLY AFTER THE WAR ENDED IN 1945.
• THE FAILURE OF THE CRIPP'S MISSION AND THE UNCERTAINITIES ABOUT WORLD WAR II THAT WAS HANGING IN THE BALANCE PRESENTED INDIAN LEADERS TO PUT PRESSURE ON THE BRITISH RULERS. IN 1942 ,THE JAPANESE FORCES WERE KNOCKING ON INDIA'S DOORS IN BURMA.GANDHIJI THOUGH IT WAS THE RIGHT TIME TO RAISE THE ' QUIT INDIA ' SLOGAN.
• FOLLOWING THE ARREST OF THE LEADERS INCLUDING GANDHIJI, THE ENTIRE COUNTRY ROSE UP INPROTEST.BEREFT OF LEADERSHIP, THE MOVEMENT DID NOT FOLLOW A CHARTED COURSE.
• DESPITE GANDHIJI'S APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE TO REFRAIN FROM VIOLENT ACTS , BRUTAL POLICE ACTION SAW PEOPLE TAKING TO VIOLENCE IN ISOLATED AREAS.
• WHEN QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT WAS STARTED ON 9TH AUGUST 1942 , BRITISH POLICE TREATED THE MASSES BRUTALLY.AT THAT TIME ARUNA ASAF ALI HOISTED THE INDIAN TRICOLOUR IN THE GOWALIA TANK MAIDAN PROUDLY.THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME , WHEN INDIAN TRICOLOUR WAS HOISTED.

CROWD AT GOWALIA TANK MAIDAN ON 9TH AUGUST 1942

• DURING THE MOVEMENT TIME ARUNA ASAF ALI AND USHA MEHTA WERE BROADCASTING THE UNDERGROUND NEWS THROUGH AN UNDERGROUND RADIO STATION.THEY WERE SHIFTING THE BROADCASTING EQUIPMENT FREQUENTLY ,TO AVOID  BEING CAPTURED BY BRITISH POLICE.
• THIS MOVEMENT IS BEING CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE IMPORTANT MILESTONES IN INDIAN FREEDOM MOVEMENT ,TO FORCE THE BRITAIN TO HANDOVER THE POWER TO INDIAN LEADERS.

ON THIS DAY , LET US SALUTE THOSE BRAVE FREEDOM FIGHTERS FOR THEIR GREAT SACRIFICE.

                  JAI HIND