{"id":13850,"date":"2023-08-08T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T06:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13850"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:19:50","slug":"quit-india-movement-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/quit-india-movement-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit India Movement Day 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Quit India Movement Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every year Quit India Day is <strong>observed on August 8 to commemorate the occasion<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This year marks the <strong>81st anniversary of the event.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What is the Quit India Movement?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Quit India Movement, also known as the <strong>August Movement<\/strong> or <strong>Bharat Chodo Andolan<\/strong>, was a significant <strong>civil disobedience movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress on August 8, 1942 at Gowalia Tank Maidan<\/strong> also known as <strong>August Kranti Maidan in Bombay.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On this day, <strong>August 8th, in 1942, Gandhi gave the famous &#8220;Do or Die&#8221; speech,<\/strong> urging the Indian people to act decisively and nonviolently against British rule.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reasons<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>While factors leading to such a movement had been building up, <strong>matters came to a head with the failure of the Cripps Mission.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>failure of the Cripps Mission<\/strong> made G<strong>andhi realise that freedom would come only if Indians fought tooth and nail for it.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>movement aimed to demand an end to British colonial rule in India <\/strong>and <strong>achieve full independence.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mass Protests:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The movement saw <strong>widespread protests, strikes and acts of civil disobedience <\/strong>across the country.<\/li>\n<li>People participated in <strong>marches, demonstrations, and various forms of nonviolent resistance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Women played a vital role<\/strong> in the Quit India Movement, displaying immense courage and leadership.<\/li>\n<li>During the movement, <strong>parallel governments were set up in Ballia<\/strong> (Uttar Pradesh), <strong>Satara (Maharashtra), Tamluk (West Bengal), and Talcher (Odisha).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Numerous arrests were made following the protest. <\/strong>Many <strong>top leaders of Congress, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,<\/strong> were also arrested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Cripps Mission?<\/h3>\n<p>The Cripps Mission refers to a diplomatic initiative sent by the British government to India in March 1942, during World War II. The mission was led by Sir Stafford Cripps, a senior British politician and government minister. The primary objective of the Cripps Mission was to secure India&#8217;s support for the British war effort in exchange for self-governance and political concessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbctv18.com\/india\/quit-india-movement-history-significance-and-interesting-facts-17458221.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Quit India Movement: History, significance and interesting facts<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Quit India Day is observed on August 8 to commemorate the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}