Quit India Movement
Gandhi's independence campaign
The Quit India Movement was a 1942 campaign of mass civil disobedience demanding an end to British colonial rule in India.
Launched by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress during World War II, it called for immediate independence with the slogan "Do or Die." The British responded with mass arrests and suppression, but the movement marked a decisive turn toward Indian independence, achieved five years later.
- satyagrahaNonviolent resistance philosophy
- underground movementsSecret organized opposition groups
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
- British ruleGovernance by the Crown
- pamphleteeringDistributing short printed arguments
Mahatma Gandhi · Jawaharlal Nehru · arrest · World War II · strikes · khadi · colonialism · nonviolent resistance · mass protests · historical memory · jail · political prisoners · Gandhi · Congress · Nehru · public speeches · constitutional reforms · freedom struggle
- Indian historyIndian independence, Akbar, Mughal Empire, British Raj, Mahatma Gandhi
Quit India Movementloyalism
Allegiance to established authority
British Raj · East India Company · colonial administration · imperial rule · British imperialism