The Quit India Movement, launched on 8 August 1942 at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee, demanded an immediate end to British rule; Gandhi's call to "Do or Die" was followed by mass arrests and a largely leaderless popular uprising.
By mid-1942 Indian nationalists were frustrated. The Cripps Mission had failed in April, wartime prices were rising, and the Japanese advance through Southeast Asia raised fears that India might be invaded while the British retreated, as they had in Malaya and Burma. Gandhi argued that British presence was itself inviting a Japanese attack, and that a free India would be better able to resist aggression.
The Congress Working Committee adopted a resolution at Wardha in July 1942, and the All India Congress Committee met in Bombay on 7–8 August. There the Quit India resolution was passed, and Gandhi gave his famous speech asking each Indian to act as a free person and to "do or die" for freedom. Before dawn on 9 August, the government arrested Gandhi and all major leaders and banned the Congress.
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