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  2. Quit India Movement - Wikipedia

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    Following the Hindu Mahasabha's official decision to boycott the Quit India movement, [23] Syama Prasad Mukherjee, leader of the Hindu Mahasabha in Bengal, (which was a part of the ruling coalition in Bengal led by Krishak Praja Party of Fazlul Haq), wrote a letter to the British Government as to how they should respond, if the Congress gave a ...

  3. Shankar Mahale - Wikipedia

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    Shankar continued to study history and politics at home under his father Dajiba Mahale, who was a teacher. Shankar joined the Quit India Movement at the age of seventeen after Mahatma Gandhi's "Do or Die" speech. [2] [3] Starting on 9 August 1942, Shankar took part in a strike in protest of the ill treatment of factory workers. The protest ...

  4. Kanaklata Barua - Wikipedia

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    Kanaklata Barua (22 December 1924 – 20 September 1942), also called Birangana and Shaheed (martyr), was an Indian independence activist who was shot dead by the Indian Imperial Police of the British Raj while leading a procession bearing the National Flag during the Quit India Movement of 1942.

  5. Potti Sreeramulu - Wikipedia

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    Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, Sreeramulu participated in major independence movements, including the Salt Satyagraha and Quit India movement, and was imprisoned multiple times. Sreeramulu is most noted for his 56-day hunger strike in 1952, demanding a separate state for Telugu-speaking people from the Madras Presidency.

  6. Quit India speech - Wikipedia

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    In August 1942, Indian politician and social activist, Mahatma Gandhi, was a central figure to the Quit India campaign. [3] He was the leader of the Indian National Congress, [4] and the Quit India campaign was a national protest movement based on "satyagraha" (truthful request) [1] that called for an end to British colonial rule in India and the establishment of Indian sovereignty, [5 ...

  7. 1942 Adas shooting - Wikipedia

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    On 18 August 1942, on the 11th day of the Quit India movement, 34 youth from Baroda (now Vadodara) were travelling to villages to distribute Indian National Congress propaganda leaflets. They travelled to Bajva, Navli and Vadod villages from where they reached the Adas railway station to return Baroda.

  8. Indian independence movement - Wikipedia

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    The Quit India Movement (also known as Bharat Chhodo Andolan) was a civil disobedience movement in India which commenced on 8 August 1942 in response to Gandhi's call for immediate self-rule by Indians and against sending Indians to World War II. He asked all teachers to leave their schools, and other Indians to leave their respective jobs and ...

  9. Bina Das - Wikipedia

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    After her release from jail, [7] she became active in the Congress, participated in the Quit India Movement and was imprisoned till 1945. After independence, she won the provincial assembly, but the Bina Das left the Congress due to ideological differences.