August Offer, Individual Satyagraha, Cripps Mission and Quit India 1939-42
Whole chapter · 10–16 focused hours
Towards freedom 1939-1947
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained modern history. Later chronological chapters assume earlier phases have been studied. History optional and basic literacy remediation are outside this plan.
Includes
- Selected primary readings and historical maps/source extracts
- A short chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book, appendix or optional exercise in full
- Exclude detailed Second World War history and the separately assigned Partition consequences.
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Linlithgow's August Offer 1940: dominion status as goal, expanded Executive Council, post-war constituent body, minority veto; rejected by Congress and League
- Individual civil disobedience from October 1940: Vinoba Bhave first, Nehru second, Brahma Datt third; Delhi Chalo; freedom of speech against war
- Cripps proposals March 1942: Indian Union with Dominion status, constituent assembly partly elected by provincial assemblies and partly nominated by princes, provinces free to stay out and sign separate agreements with Britain, defence retained by Britain; post-dated cheque
- AICC at Gowalia Tank, Bombay, adopts the Quit India resolution on 8 August 1942; Gandhi's do or die; leaders arrested 9 August
- Quit india course and parallel governments
Where to study this topic
- Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond ↗
Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, pp. 1-30 (printed 286-315)
- Tamil Nadu State Board Class XII History, chapter index (new syllabus) ↗
ch. 7 Last Phase of Indian National Movement
- UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus, Modern History (GS SCORE) ↗
heading: Indian National Movement III (1930-1947)
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 ↗
ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, pp. 1-20 (printed 93-112)
- Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 7, chapters 1–3: wartime struggle, post-war movement and transfer of power.
Whole chapter reading
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 ↗
Wartime struggle and the movement towards independence
- Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond ↗
Quit India, negotiations and the final independence passages
- India’s Struggle for Independence, publisher edition record ↗
Chapters 34–37, from wartime offers through transfer of power; skip the duplicated social analysis of Partition; select the passages relevant to this chapter rather than rereading events assigned elsewhere.
Book required - Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 7, chapters 1–3: wartime struggle, post-war movement and transfer of power.
Book required