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8
Ougùstùs
1942

Quit India resolution demands an end to British rule

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📅 8 Ougùstùs 1942 📍 India

The All-India Congress Committee adopted the Quit India resolution in Bombay, calling for British withdrawal and mass nonviolent resistance. The colonial government immediately arrested Gandhi and much of the Congress leadership; protests and strikes spread, and authorities used censorship, detention, and force to suppress them. The campaign made continued imperial rule harder to justify during a war fought in the name of freedom.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Mahatma Gandhi

Jawaharlal Nehru

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Indian protesters

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

All-India Congress Committee

British Raj