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SAI International School
Session-2020-21
Class- VIII
Subject- History
The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947
Sub Topic : Quit India and Later
NOTES

Quit India Movement and Later :
Quit India
Movement and • Mahatma Gandhi decided to initiate a new phase of movement
Later : against the British in the middle of the Second World War which
was Quit India Movement.

• The first response of the British was severe repression and the end
of 1943 over 90,000 people were arrested, and around 1,000 killed
in police firing.

• He wanted the British to quit India immediately

• To the people, he said, “do or die” in your effort to fight the British,
but non-violently.

• The movement attracted peasants and the youth who gave up their
studies to join it. In many areas, people set up their own
governments.

• The first response of the British was severe repression. The
rebellion ultimately brought the Raj to its knees.