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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
He was a participant of underground movement and was in forefront of Quit India Movement. [5] He coined the term "Quit India" which found the approval of Mahatma Gandhi. [6] In his book Gandhi and Bombay, K Gopalaswami describes how “Quit India” came to be adopted as the slogan amidst other contenders. Shantikumar Morarji noted that during ...
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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.
He took a prominent part in the Quit India movement which started in 1942. In 1945–46 he went underground, and evading arrest, he supported the movement of a parallel government mainly in the Satara district. The parallel government of Satara was a " Prati-Sarkar" which lasted for longest period of 44 months.
The Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar (Bengali : তাম্রলিপ্ত জাতীয় সরকার) or Tamluk National Government was an independent parallel government established in the areas of Tamluk and Contai subdivisions, now in Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India, [1] [2] during the Quit India Movement (1942-1944).