Indian independence · TURNING POINT ·
Quit India Movement (1942)
On the Indian independence map as “Gowalia Tank — “Quit India””
8 Aug 1942 — Congress votes for immediate British withdrawal; Gandhi gives the crowd a mantra: “Do or die.” By dawn the whole leadership is jailed without trial, and the leaderless country rises anyway.
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- Quit India and the Bengal famine (chapter 11 of Indian independence)
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- Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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