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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...
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    Indian Independence Movement, was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British rule in India. It lasted until 1947...
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    The Quit India speech was given by Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of the Quit India movement, August 8, 1942. His address was issued shortly before midnight...
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    Usha Mehta (category Prisoners and detainees of British India)
    which functioned for few months during the Quit India Movement of 1942. In 1998, the Government of India conferred on her Padma Vibhushan, the second...
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    Matangini Hazra (category Revolutionary movement for Indian independence)
    Indian police in front of the Police Station, becoming the first "Quit India" movement martyr in Midnapore. She was a staunch Gandhian and was fondly called...
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    became its Acting President. In her presidential address, she welcomed the Quit India Resolution passed at the historic Bombay session of the Indian National...
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    not to join the Quit India Movement at any cost. Following the Hindu Mahasabha's official decision to boycott the Quit India movement, Syama Prasad Mukherjee...
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  • Ae Watan Mere Watan (category Films set in the Indian independence movement)
    setting off a thrilling chase with the British authorities during the Quit India movement. It is written and directed by Kannan Iyer and produced by Karan...
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    movements were the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Quit India Movement. Though intended to be non-violent, the movement was eventually called off by Gandhi...
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    Delhi and for the provincial elections of 1936. While promoting the Quit India Movement. Patel made a climactic speech to more than 100,000 people gathered...
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    political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the...
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    Congress Radio (category Indian independence movement)
    months during the Quit India Movement of 1942, a movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi against the British Raj for independence of India. Congress Radio was...
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  • Aruna Asaf Ali (category Quit India Movement)
    independence movement, she is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan, Bombay during the Quit India Movement in 1942...
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  • deteriorated. In 1942, she was arrested again for participating in the Quit India movement and was imprisoned in Pune. While in prison her chronic bronchitis...
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    Gandhi actually said on a range of topics and falsely repudiated the Quit India movement. Gandhi was released before the end of the war on 6 May 1944 because...
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    Syama Prasad Mukherjee (category India MPs 1952–1957)
    government of trying to hold on to India under any cost and criticised its repressive policies against the Quit India Movement. After resigning, he mobilised...
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    M. Bhaktavatsalam (category Members of the Constituent Assembly of India)
    politics and the freedom movement right from an early age and was imprisoned during the Salt Satyagraha and the Quit India Movement. He was elected to the...
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    Indian independence movement, made it a target for Independence activists; on the night of 3 January 1943, during the Quit India movement, Hemwati Nandan...
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    People in Reoti, Rasra, and Bansdih later followed suit. During the Quit India Movement of 1942, Ballia district saw much activity, leading to it gaining...
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    Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (category India House)
    Congress under Gandhi's leadership launched the Quit India Movement; Savarkar boycotted the movement, writing a letter titled "Stick to your Posts" and...
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    2024. Mahotsav, Amrit. "Quit India Movement in Moradabad, 1942". Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Retrieved 4 April 2024...
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    Kushal Konwar (category People executed by British India by hanging)
    Indian freedom fighter from Assam. He was hanged in 1942 during the Quit India Movement. Kushal Konwar was born on 21 March 1905 at Chaodang Chariali of...
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  • Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (film) (category Films set in the Indian independence movement)
    united India. He refuses to support Gandhi's Quit India Movement. Fearing partition, and urges Hindus to prepare for military defense. As India moves towards...
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  • participation in the Quit India Movement along with other Indian leaders, and he used this time to write down his thoughts and knowledge about India's history. The...
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    role in the Civil Disobedience and Quit India Movements initiated by Mahatma Gandhi. Civil Disobedience Movement was planned at the 1920 convention of...
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  • Court of Directors of the East India Company (EIC). The Court of Directors assigned a Council of Four (based in India) to assist the Governor-General...
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    M. V. Krishnappa (category India MPs 1952–1957)
    instrumental in urging young students to take up the cause and join the Quit India Movement against the British Raj, Seetharama Shantananda, a young student...
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    India released all political prisoners who had participated in the Quit India movement. The Indian National Congress, which had long fought for self rule...
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    Gandhi then launched the Quit India Movement in August 1942, demanding the immediate withdrawal of the British from India or face nationwide civil disobedience...
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  • Government of India. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023. Regani, Sarojini (1972). Highlights of the Freedom Movement in Andhra...
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