quit india

1. Presented by…..
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2.  World War II and Indian involvement
 Cripps' Mission’ Failure
 Contemporary condition of congress in 1940
 Resolution for immediate independence
 Gandhi's Quit India speech
 Quit India movement,1stphase
 Quit India movement,2ndphase
 Prominent leaders
 Women in the Quit India Movement
 Quit India Movement in Bengal
 Opposition to Quit India
 RSS
 Conclusion
 Thank You

3.  British Governor-General of India,
Lord Linlithgow, had without
consultation with the congress
brought India into the war.
 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
organized the Indian National
Army with the help of the
Japanese announced war against
the British government in India.
 The Muslim League, Muhammad
Ali Jinnah, supported the war in
return Pakistan, a separate Muslim
state.
 The Congress Working
committee had passed a
resolution for war against Fascism
at Wardha in September 1939 and
freedom in return.

4. The Cripps mission was an
attempt in late March 1942 to
secure Indian cooperation and
support for war.
Cripps offered immediate self-
government and eventual
independence in return.
The Congress was divided
upon its response to India's entry
intoWW2.
But the mission fails.

5.  Due to the price hike of daily used
commodities ,common people were loosing
their trust on congress.
 Due to active participation of Netaji ,the
congress was loosing their popularity.
 To boost up their party, they shown their
activeness through quit India movement.

6.  The Congress Working Committee
meeting at Wardha (14 July, 1942)
adopted a resolution demanding
complete independence from the
British government.
 It proved to be controversial within
the party.
 On August 8, 1942 the Quit India
Resolution was passed at the
Bombay session of the All India
Congress Committee(AICC).

7.  In his Quit India speech on
8th Aug at Gowalia Tank,
Bombay, Gandhi told Indians
to follow non-violent civil
disobedience.
 Gandhi called "an orderly
British withdrawal" from India
and told the Cong leader to
Do or Die.
 He advised for the Hindu-
Muslim unity.

8.  On 9th August, eminent
Congress leaders like
Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana
Abul Kalam Azad etc were
arrested.
 The All India Congress was
declared unlawful
associations and banned it.
 The assembly of public
meetings were prohibited.
 Gandhiji requested for non-
violence movement once
again in jail.

9.  The arrest of Gandhi and the
Congress leaders led to mass
demonstrations throughout
India.
 Next it became a terrorist
movement .
 The British swiftly responded
with mass detentions.
.

10.  Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi
 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
 Jawaharlal Nehru
 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

11.  Gandhiji referred woman “as
disciplined soldiers of Indian
freedom“.
 Usha Mehta set up a radio
transmitter, called the `Voice
of Freedom` to disseminate
information in quit India
movement.
 Matangini Hazra,Aruna Asaf
Ali, Sucheta Kripalani

12.  Large numbers of
peasant joined in
protesting against
taxes, landholders and
british.
 Matangini Hazra
stepped forward
capturing the court
and the police station
on September 29 the
people of Tamluk sub-
division.
 The national govt was

13.  Hindu Mahasabha andThe
Communist Party of India
strongly opposed the Quit India
movement.
 The Muslim League opposed
Quit India.
 Many Indian businessmen were
profiting from heavy wartime
and did not support Quit India.
 The nationalists had very little
international support.
 The lack of leadership.

14.  Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh abbreviated
as RSS .
 Founded on 27 September 1925, the
organisation calls itself a non-governmental
organisation,[15] the world's largest such, and
claims a commitment of selfless service
to India.
 RSS was founded in 1925 by Keshav Baliram
Hedgewar, a doctor in the city of Nagpur,
British India.[24] He had been charged with
sedition in 1921 by the British Administration
and was imprisoned for one year .

15.  The quit India movement is one of the most
important event in the history of Indian
freedom struggle aginst British.
 Though the movement was unable to achieve
freedom but it succeed to compel the British
government to quit India.
 The British government also realizes that the
time had came to quit India.