In 1942 August 8, the Quit India Movement is also known as India August Movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC).

Quit India Movement was a mass movement against British rule in India. As it is started in August, it is also known as August Kranti or August Movement.

Some facts about the Quit India Movement:

1. Mumbai’s Gowalia Tank Maidan is the place where the Quit India Movement initiated. Leaders gathered here on August 8 with Mahatma Gandhi to protest.

2. Mahatma Gandhi Ji gave the slogan of Do or Die in his Quit India speech at Gowalia tank Maidan.

3. After a few hours of Gandhi Ji’s speech, the entire INC was arrested without trial.

4. The Quit India Movement failed as the British had the support of the Viceroy’s Council,  All India Muslim League, the Indian Imperial Police, the princely states, the British Indian Army, the Hindu Mahasabha, and the Indian Civil Service.

5. Quit India failed because of heavy suppression, weak coordination, and the lack of a clear-cut program of action.

6. The British declined to grant independence immediately and claimed that it could only be given at the end of the war. Eventually, India achieved independence in 1947.

Source of Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quit_India_Movement

Lala Lajpat Rai’s Early Education

Lala Lajpat Rai passed the entrance exam in 1880 from Calcutta and Punjab University and came to Lahore to study further. He passed the FA exam in 1982 and during this time he came in contact with Arya Samaj and became its member.

Lawyer Lala Lajpat Rai

Lala Lajpat Rai also served as a Mukhtar. He remained in Hisar until 1892 as a successful lawyer. After which he came to Lahore and joined the political movement in addition to Arya Samaj. In 1988, he attended the Allahabad session of the Congress for the first time. Lala Lajpat Rai along with his colleagues Lokmanya Tilak and Vipinchandra Pal got into the Congress.

The non-cooperation movement under the leadership of Lala Ji was a complete success in Punjab, due to which Lala Lajpat Rai came to be called Lion of Punjab and Punjab Kesari. During the First World War (1914–18) Lala Lajpat Rai went to England as a member of a delegation and aroused strong public opinion for the independence of the country.

Opposing the Simon Commission, Lalaji gave the slogan of ‘Go back Britishers’ and strongly opposed the commission. When Simon Commission came to India on 3 February 1928, there was a fire in the entire country to protest against it. On 30 October 1928, Lala Ji was badly injured in a demonstration organized against the Simon Commission in Lahore. After fighting the wounds for 18 days, on 17 November 1928, the door of his life closed.

During his lifetime, he has written many books that include The Story of My Deportation (1908), Arya Samaj (1915), The United States of America: A Hindu’s Impression (1916), England’s Debt to India: A Historical Narrative of Britain’s Fiscal Policy in India (1917), and Unhappy India (1928).