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The Quit India Movement was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in India.
Quit India Movement (1942) Formation of Indian National Army (1942) Bengal famine (1943) Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland; Leo Amery; Stanley Baldwin; Neville Chamberlain; Winston Churchill; Appointed by King George VI (1936–1947) (as Emperor of India) Archibald Wavell, Viscount Wavell (1883–1950) 1 October 1943 21 February 1947 C ...
On 8 August 1940, early in the Battle of Britain, the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, made the so-called "August Offer" at Simla, a fresh proposal promising the expansion of the Executive Council to include more Indians, the establishment of an advisory war council, giving weight to minority opinion, and the recognition of Indians' right to frame their own constitution after the end of the war.
14 July- Wardha working committee meeting reiterated demand for Britons leaving India. 8 August – Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which led to the start of a historical civil disobedience movement across India. 9 August – Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces.
Movement Indian Independence movement Kanaklata Barua (22 December 1924 – 20 September 1942), also called Birangana and Shaheed (martyr), was an Indian independence activist who was shot dead by the Indian Imperial Police of the British Raj while leading a procession bearing the National Flag during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
V. P. Menon in The Transfer of Power in India stated: "His 7½ year regime – longer than that of any other Viceroy – was conspicuous by its lack of positive achievement. When he left India, famine stalked portions of the countryside. There was economic distress due to the rising cost of living and the shortage of essential commodities.
Kasturba Mohandas Gandhi [a] (listen ⓘ, born Kasturba Gokuldas Kapadia; 11 April 1869 – 22 February 1944) was an Indian political activist who was involved in the Indian independence movement during British India.
Viceroy John Lawrence's executive council in Simla, 1864. The Viceroy's Executive Council, formerly known as Council of Four and officially known as the Council of the Governor-General of India (since 1858), was an advisory body and cabinet of the Governor-General of India, also known as Viceroy. It existed from 1773 to 1947 in some form or the ...