Significance of the Quit India Movement
- Leaders who later became well-known leaders, including Ram Manohar Lohia, J.P. Narayan, Aruna Asaf Ali, Biju Patnaik, and Sucheta Kripalani, were involved in underground activities.
- Women participated actively in the movement. Usha Mehta, among other female activists, contributed to the establishment of an underground radio station that sparked awareness of the movement.
- As a result of the Quit India Movement, there is a stronger sense of brotherhood and unity. Many college and high school students dropped out, and many adults quit their jobs and withdrew money from the banks.
- The British came to the crucial conclusion that India was ungovernable in the long run as a result of the costs of World War II, even though the Quit India campaign was crushed in 1944 as a result of their refusal to grant immediate independence and instead insisting that it could only happen after the war had ended. In the end, it helped pave the road for India’s independence by altering the nature of political negotiations with the British.
Significance of Quit India Movement
Mahatma Gandhi launched the August Movement, also known as the Quit India Movement, during the All-India Congress Committee meeting in Bombay on August 8, 1942, during World War II, calling for an end to British rule in India. Gandhi issued a call to action in his Quit India address following the Cripps Mission’s failure to win Indian support for the British war effort. Gandhi’s “An Orderly British Withdrawal from India” was the demand of the All-India Congress Committee, which organized the widespread demonstration.