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Following the Hindu Mahasabha's official decision to boycott the Quit India movement, [23] Syama Prasad Mukherjee, leader of the Hindu Mahasabha in Bengal, (which was a part of the ruling coalition in Bengal led by Krishak Praja Party of Fazlul Haq), wrote a letter to the British Government as to how they should respond, if the Congress gave a ...
In August 1942, Indian politician and social activist, Mahatma Gandhi, was a central figure to the Quit India campaign. [3] He was the leader of the Indian National Congress, [4] and the Quit India campaign was a national protest movement based on "satyagraha" (truthful request) [1] that called for an end to British colonial rule in India and the establishment of Indian sovereignty, [5 ...
Jinnah's Muslim League condemned the Quit India movement and participated in provincial governments and the legislative councils of the Raj. He encouraged Muslims to participate in the war. With that cooperation, the British continued to administer India for the duration of the war by using officials and military personnel if Indian politicians ...
Usha Mehta (25 March 1920 – 11 August 2000 [3]) was a Gandhian and independence activist of India. She is also remembered for organizing the Congress Radio, also called the Secret Congress Radio, an underground radio station, which functioned for few months during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
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.
When Mahatma Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement in August 1942, Narayan, along with Yogendra Shukla, Suraj Narayan Singh, Gulab Chand Gupta, Pandit Ramnandan Mishra, Shaligram Singh and Shyam Barthwar, scaled the wall of Hazaribagh Central Jail with a goal of starting an underground movement for freedom. [19]
Matangini Hazra (19 October 1869 – 29 September 1942 [1]) was an Indian revolutionary who participated in the Indian independence movement.She was leading one of the five batches of volunteers (of the Vidyut Bahini), constituted by the Samar Parisad (War Council), at Tamluk to capture the Tamluk Police Station on 29 September 1942, when she was shot dead by the British Indian police in front ...
Shankar continued to study history and politics at home under his father Dajiba Mahale, who was a teacher. Shankar joined the Quit India Movement at the age of seventeen after Mahatma Gandhi's "Do or Die" speech. [2] [3] Starting on 9 August 1942, Shankar took part in a strike in protest of the ill treatment of factory workers. The protest ...