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.