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QUIT INDIA CAMPAIGN
REPERCUSSIONS OF QUIT INDIA CAMPAIGN
-One day after the campaign was sanctioned. Gandhi, Nehru and other congress leaders were arrested.
-In the next fortnight other congress members were arrested.
Offices were raided and funds were frozen.
-Gandhi knew he could no longer coordinate so he told people to be their own leaders. This caused riots, killing and damaging of European property and wrecking of train stations.
1,000 deaths and 3,000 injuries were directly attributed to the quit India campaign
-Indian soldiers still remained loyal to the Raj with only 216 soldiers going absent without leave
RESPONSE TO THE FAILURE OF THE CRIPPS MISSION
-Lithlingow stepped up press censorships and intercepts, by a special branch of congress communications. By summer of 1942 congress was aware that new campaign of civil disobedience was being planned.
-Lithlingow proposed to arrest all congress supporters and deport them to Uganda and Gandhi to Aden.
DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN GANDHI AND CONGRESS
-Gandhi wanted to start a quit India campaign/ satyagraha and argued that if India became free it could make peace with Japan.
-Congress disagreed and Nehru wanted to have nothing to do with Fascism.
CONGRESS DECISION
8th August 1942 Sanctioned Quit India.
-On the one hand a non-cooperation campaign could have damaged relationship and future concessions from the raj
-But doing nothing would give Jinnah and Bose the upper hand.
-On 8th August 1942, Congress officially sanctioned Gandhi's Satyagraha and his quit India campaign was launched.
"quit india" was the shout greeted by every British Man.
-Was shouted at troops trying to defend India
-Congress knew that the reaction would be to imprison them so they called Indians to make India ungovernable.
SUCCESS OF QUIT INDIA CAMPAIGN
-It failed to paralyse the government even in the most militant Hindu area of Bihar.
