Towards freedom 1939-1947
August Offer, Individual Satyagraha, Cripps Mission and Quit India 1939-42
Practise 5 PYQsConcepts to cover
- 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
- Spontaneous phase, sabotage, underground (Aruna Asaf Ali, Usha Mehta's radio, Jayaprakash Narayan, Lohia), parallel governments at Ballia, Tamluk (Jatiya Sarkar) and Satara (Prati Sarkar), Gandhi's 21-day fast 1943
Where to study
A Brief History of Modern India · Rajiv Ahir (Spectrum)
- ch. 22 Nationalist Response in the Wake of World War II
- ch. 23 Quit India Movement, Demand for Pakistan, and the INA
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)
- Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 3.2 Dialogues, p. 17 (printed 302)
- Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 4. Quit India, p. 18 (printed 303)
- Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 4. Quit India; Satara, 1943, p. 18 (printed 303)
Tamil Nadu State Board Class XII History
- ch. 7 Last Phase of Indian National Movement
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)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Quit India and Later, p. 15 (printed 107)
India’s Struggle for Independence, 1857–1947 · Bipan Chandra and others
- ch. 34 The Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission, pp. 443-456