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Quit India Movement (1942)

On the Indian independence map as “Gowalia Tank — “Quit India””

8 Aug 1942 — Congress voted to demand immediate British withdrawal. Gandhi gave the crowd a mantra: “Do or die.” By dawn the entire leadership had been jailed without trial, but the country rose even without its leaders.

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Turning point
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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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TURNING POINT · INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION, 1857–1964

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