QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT(1942)

QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT

As you know, the Quit India Movement was a final phase of agitation related to the Indian Freedom Movement. It was declared in1942 August 9.So this agitation is also known as The August Revolt. When this resolution had passed, all the Congress leaders were arrested and sentenced to jail. It was not a national phenomenon. But all the important state leaders were also arrested. So then the National movement has been lead to a leaderless situation. “Do or Die” it was the instruction towards the soldiers of this movement.
Quit India was the slogan which demand the British rule should be leave from India. It causes many damages to the Omnipotent British Raj. They were forced to think the Independence of India. It was an all India movement. But it has a remarkable contribution from Kerala itself. Even then a full Kerala concept was not emerged. It was divided into three provinces known as Thiruvithamcoore, Cochin and Malabar. Among these Malabar was a British province and the rest are the Princely States. The anti British agitations are not very strong in the Princely states. At the same time the British Indian territories are strongly participated in such agitations. Likewise Malabar was the main destination of the Quit India Movement in Kerala.

P.M. KUNJHIRAMAN NAMBIAR

P.M. KUNHIRAMAN NAMBIAR(1905-1998)
A fore runner of Kerala Socialist movement.

An honest man from the land of Theyyam, we can introduce P.M.Kunjhiraman Nambiar with this expression. The ancestors of P.M were the advisors or the care takers of the else while Chirakkal Swaroopam. With the support of this background he can easily organize the people of that region. He was the fore runner of the Congress Socialist Party when it goes through the crisis. He was the main leader of the party while its child hood. “P.M. and some children” it was the saying about the Congress Socialist Party then. Why it, then all the members of the party was too young and shri .P.M. was the only grown up.

P.M.Kunjhiraman Nambiar was born in 1905 July 7 at a reputed family in the Azhikode Amsam called Puthiya Mundayadu. Now this place is in Kannoor district in Kerala. He started his political career as a congress worker in Chirakkal Taluk. Hehad taken part in the Inspiring Salt Sathyagraha at Payyannoor with K.Kelappan In 1930. Then he was arrested and was sentenced for two and half years of imprisonment. He was sent to the Kannoor Central Jail. In 1938 and 1942 he was also sentenced to jail for some other agitation in connected to the Freedom Struggle. As a freedom fighter , he got seven years of imprisonment in different period of time.

He was the founder president of the Malabar Aided Teachers’ Union. After the Quit India movement, the Congress Socialist Party was organized under his strong leadership. In 1957 and 1960 he was elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly from Quilandi constituency as a Praja Socialist Party member. In 1962, when Pattom ThanuPillai has resigned from the post of the state chairman of the Praja Socialist Party, P.M has assumed charge as his successor. In 1968 he drop active politics and leaved as a cultural activist with some social and cultural activities in Kannoor. After completing 93 years of life he passed away in 1998November25.

Even after his demise, he is remembered as one of the greater fighters of Freedom Movement and the hero of the Socialist Movement.

C.S.P After the 2nd World war

C.S.P After the 2nd World war


Even after the communist encroachment some Socialists have remained as the Socialists. But they were in prison. The Socialist Party has taken a strong decision against the IMPERTALIST WAR . So the British government has arrested the Socialists and sentenced them for treason. Then in 1942, the Quit India movement was declared and the Socialists have taken part with this movement with the strong nationalist feeling. This intimacy is also caused the Socialists imprisonment to be continued. They had been in prison up to the end of 1944. So in respect of the Congress Socialist Party the years from 1939 to 1944 was an age of vacuum or an age of hollow. But after the 2nd World War the party has been resurrected like a phoenix.


The 2nd World War has over with thunderous shake to the imperialist forces. The colonial rule of Great Britain has faced so many setbacks at that juncture. The entire scenario has changed against the Britain. At that situation all the political prisoners have been released and the interim government has come into power under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru(1946). Then in Kerala the youth leaders who have a intimate faith in Socialism have started to re organize the Socialist party as a youth gathering.


The young Socialist followers organized some youth movements known as YOUVAK SAMKHAMGAL in Malabar under the leadership of K.Kunjirama Kurup.It was called as Kunnummakkara Youvak Sankh at first and later turned to Kurumbranadu Youvak Sankh. As a follow up of this regional youth groups an Akhila Malabar Yuvajana sankh has been organized under the leadership of the great P.M.Kunjhiraman Nambiar. These youth movements have given an inspiration for the Socialist believers. They have formed ad hoc committees for so many villages in Malabar and decided to form a state level ad hoc committee. They have organized a meeting and nominated a committee under the convener ship of P.M.Kunjhiraman Nambiar.The other members of this committee were Dr. K.B.Menon, Karunakara Menon, N.Sreekantan Nair, and R.M.Manakklath. The members of this committee have a full representation of the three part of Kerala such as Malabar, Cochin and Travancore.


This was the third attempt of the organization of the Socialist Party in Kerala. With the comparison of the two previous attempts it was a humble beginning. Even though, the Socialist group has showed its strength. In the later period of the Kerala history, the Socialist Party has secured a glorious role for its political viability and morality.


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SOCIALIST PARTY IN KERALA-FIRST ATTEMPT

The socialist movement in kerala is as the follow up of the social reform movement in Kerala. Sri Narayana Guru, Ayyankali,and other social reformists have paved the way for the uplift of the downtrodden people of Kerala.With this background the socialist movement has a green signal for its sprouting.

Apart from the reformist acharyas there are some other group of people have contributed for the social reforms. Among them the teachers of the Malabar aided school is prominent. They have educated the common people about their rights, and their equality in the society. It was the basement of the Socialist Party in Kerala.
SOCIALIST PARTY IN KERALA -ESTABLISHMENT
Up to the state re organization Kerala was divided into three parts such as Travancore ,Cochin and Malabar.Travancore and Cochin were Princely states and Malabar was under the direct rule of the English. So the political movements are sprouts from their.As in the same way Socialist movement is also started from their.

The Indian socialist for fathers started the socialist party under the Indian National Congress known as the CONGRESS SOCIALIST PARTY, was on MAY 1934.As in the follow up of this national movement, in Kerala organized an organizing meting in the same year same month..K.Kelappan , the known Gandhian leader was in chair. In this meeting the Kerala unit of the socialist party has been established with C.K.Govindan Nair as secretary. But in October 1934,C.K.Govindan Nair has resigned from the secretary post after some mutual disappoints between the Gandhians and the socialists in the state congress unit. It was the first phase of the Socialist Movement in Kerala