NAME:- CDT. Kewal vinod rathod

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3 MAH BN MUMBAI A GROUP

KES SHROFF COLLEGE

QUIT MOVEMENT

The Was a movement launched at Bombay session of the All India committee by on 8th August 1942. The movement is also known as August movement / Bharat chodo andolan . This movement was started during world war 2 to end the British rule in India . The movement was begun on August 9, 1942, and from that point forward the day is commended as August Kranti Day/Diwas. Mumbai’s gowalia tank maidan also called as August kantri maidan where mhatma gandhi conveyed his speech denoting the start of the Quit India Movement. Mahatma alongside different pioneers accumulated here on August 8 and 9, 1942. The maidan also houses a landmark as a tribute to the recorded occasion. In the speech mhatma gandhi said that it’s time for do or die for the country. After the speech all the memebers were arrested by British army without any trial to slow down the movement. The main pioneer of the movement like mhatma gandhi , Abdul kalam azad , and Sardar were also arrested

Thee people attacked the railway station, police stations and law courts as they were the symbols of the British Government. People even started their independent government in some places such as Ballia, Tamluk, Dharwar, Satara, Talcher, Balasore. These places were freed from British rules. The movement was most widespread in Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Bombay, Andhra Pradesh. the British responded with viciousness and the army was called to assist the police and lathi-charges, the firing was made to unarmed people. The rebels were arrested and tortured, and over sixty thousand people were jailed by the end of the year.

Jai Prakash Narayan, S M Joshi, Achyut Patwardhan and Smt Sucheta Kripalani were among the few leaders who were able escape from the arrest and went to hiding and tried to lead the mass movement. The people of the nation suffered very much during the Second World war also due to the terrible famine which took place in Bengal in AD 1943. More than thirty lakh people died due to the famine, and the Government did next to nothing about it. Quit India Movement was one of the renowned struggles of Indian History.