The Quit India Movement was launched in 1942 by Mahatma Gandhi to protest India sending troops to fight in World War II and demand independence from Britain. Talks between the Indian National Congress and Britain failed, leading Gandhi and other leaders to endorse mass protests across India urging independence. The British responded with mass arrests, fines, and bombings, and the movement turned violent contrary to Gandhi's principles of non-violence, leaving it leaderless and fading over the next year.

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2. The Quit India Movement was launched by Mahatma
Gandhi in 1942 in protest against sending Indian
troops to fight in World War II and demanding the
immediate independence of India from the British.
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3. The Quit India movement was endorsed after talks
between the Congress and the British had failed.
Indians were urged to act as an independent nation
and not follow orders of the British.
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4. Gandhi and other senior Congress leaders were im-prisoned.
which were followed by bomb attacks, sabotage and
violence. The Muslim League declared its support for
the British and by doing this, were able to spread the
message of Islam freely.
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Mass protests broke out all over the country
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5. The British responded to the protests by staging mass
arrests, implementing heavy fines and airdropping of
bombs. The rebel movement which had resorted to
violence to gain independence was now working
against Gandhi's principles of non-violence. This left
the movement leaderless and fizzled out over the
next year.
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In 1946, the Royal Indian Navy called a strike and
Indian sailors too, mutinied. The strike spread and the
Indian population supported it. Soon, the Air Force and
the local police forces joined in. There were more riots
and revolts.
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