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8 August 1942
August Kranti Maidan is a public ground in central Mumbai where the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India Resolution on .
14 July 1942
Its historical significance derives from a single concentrated episode: the meeting of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) on 7–8 August 1942, at which t…
9 August 1942
Within hours, in the pre-dawn of , the colonial government executed Operation Zero Hour, arresting Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Maulana Azad…
8 August 2017
On , the seventy-fifth anniversary of the resolution, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation and launched the "Sankalp Se Siddhi" (Resolution to A…
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Indian National Congress
The procedural sequence is precise and frequently examined. The Congress Working Committee met at Wardha in mid-July 1942 and approved a draft resolution demanding the immediate end of British rule in India. This draft was placed before the full AICC at the Gowalia Tank session, where it was debated and adopted on the evening of 8 August 1942. It was here that Gandhi delivered his celebrated address ending with the exhortation to "Do or Die" (Karenge ya Marenge) — a demand that every participant resolve either to win freedom or perish in the attempt. The resolution sanctioned a mass, non-violent struggle on the widest possible scale and authorised Gandhi to lead it. Within hours, in the pre-dawn of 9 August 1942, the colonial government executed Operation Zero Hour, arresting Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Maulana Azad and the entire senior Congress leadership under the Defence of India Rules.
All-India Muslim League
Historiographical assessment of the movement and its launching ground remains contested. Colonial administrators, and later some historians, characterised the August 1942 disturbances as a "spontaneous rebellion" verging on revolt rather than a Gandhian non-violent campaign, given the sabotage and the parallel governments. The Muslim League under Jinnah and the Communist Party of India (which had adopted a "People's War" line after Germany's invasion of the USSR) abstained, and the movement's failure to secure a negotiated transfer of power is debated against its success in demonstrating that British rule had become administratively untenable. Some scholars credit it with convincing London that India could not be held indefinitely; others note the movement was militarily suppressed within weeks. The maidan's renaming and commemoration are themselves part of the politics of public memory in modern Mumbai.
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On 8 August 1942 at Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay, the All India Congress Committee adopted the Quit India Resolution and Mahatma Gandhi gave his "Do or Die" call, prompting the British to arrest the Congress leadership the next morning.
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