Tag: prominent leaders in indian freedom movement

The British government responded to the passing of Quit India resolution by arresting the major leaders of the Congress Working Committee. It was left to a young Aruna Asaf Ali to lead the movement. She was an Indian freedom fighter who is best known for hoisting Indian National Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement. She earned the title “Heroine of the 1942 movement”. She represented the linkage of the women’s rights movement with the freedom struggle.

On 8 August 1942 at the All-India Congress Committee session in Bombay, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched the 'Quit India' movement. The movement was accompanied by a mass protest on non-violent lines, in which Gandhi called for “an orderly British withdrawal from India”. It was in this movement that he gave the nation the slogan of ‘Do or Die’.

The second World War went on from 1939 to 1945. It was fought between the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain (England), the United States, the Soviet Union, It caused 50 to 85 million fatalities and thus was the deadliest conflict in the human history. It resulted in the victory of the Allied forces.