India's Revolution; Gandhi and the Quit India Movement

India's Revolution; Gandhi and the Quit India Movement
Author: Francis G. Hutchins
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1973
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Gandhi's Quit India Movement of 1942 was the climax of a nationalist revolutionary movement which sought independence on India's own terms. Indian independence was attained through revolution, not through a benevolent grant from the British imperial regime. "The British left India because Indians had made it impossible for them to stay." The bases for Francis Hutchins' thesis are new facts from hitherto unused sources: interviews with surviving participants in the movement, private papers from the Gandhi Memorial Museum and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, documents in the National Archives of India. In particular, he has studied the secret records of the British government, recently made available, which reveal for the first time the extent of the revolutionary movement and Britain's plans for dealing with it. Of the British records Hutchins says, "No other regime has left such careful documentation of its strategies or compiled such extensive records revealing the way in which it was overthrown." Even though England had always proclaimed its hope that India would one day become independent, the tacit assumption was that this was a remote eventuality. Only after Gandhi's Quit India Movement did Britain's political parties resign themselves to the necessity to leave quickly, whether or not they believed India was "ready." Obscured by censorship in India and by preoccupation with World War II, the significance of Gandhi's revolutionary technique was not appreciated at the time. Hutchins' impressive analysis uses the Indian case to develop a general theory of the revolutionary nature of colonial nationalism.

Gandhi and the Quit India Movement

Gandhi and the Quit India Movement
Author: Jen Green
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2017-12-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1484645278

Why did Mohandas Gandhi campaign so strongly for Indian independence from the British Empire, at a time when Japan was threatening the country's borders during World War II? What choices did he have, what support and advice did he receive, and how did his decisions affect history and his legacy? This book looks at a controversial event from modern history, showing why one of the world's most famous leaders chose a particular course of action.

Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1997-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521574310

Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work - a key to understanding both his life and thought, and South Asian politics in the twentieth century.

Rebellion of 1942

Rebellion of 1942
Author: Vivekananda Shukla
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1989
Genre: India
ISBN:

The Book Examines The Nature And Significance Of The Quit India Movement And Shows How The Movement Attracted The Intelligentsia, Andwho All Actively Participated In It.

Quit India

Quit India
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1942
Genre: British
ISBN: