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Turning point · Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948
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.
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — Quit India — and the Famine in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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