🔥 Quit India Movement (1942) Super PYQ
📅 Launched: 8 August 1942 (Gowalia Tank, Bombay)
Slogan: "Do or Die" (Karo ya Maro) - Gandhi
Goal: Immediate end to British Rule
🕵️ Underground Movement:
- Usha Mehta: Ran Secret Congress Radio PYQ
- Aruna Asaf Ali: Hoisted flag at Gowalia Tank
- Jayaprakash Narayan: Guerilla warfare
- Ram Manohar Lohia: Radio broadcasts
🏛️ Parallel Governments (Jatiya Sarkar): PYQ
| Place |
Leader/Details |
| Ballia (UP) |
Chittu Pandey (First parallel govt) |
| Tamluk (Bengal) |
"Jatiya Sarkar" (Cyclone relief work) |
| Satara (Maharashtra) |
Nana Patil, Y.B. Chavan (Longest lasting) |
🎖️ INA & Subhash Chandra Bose PYQ
- Founder of INA: Captain Mohan Singh (1942)
- Reorganized by: Subhash Chandra Bose (1943 in Singapore)
- Slogans: "Delhi Chalo", "Give me blood, I will give you freedom"
- Women's Regiment: Rani Jhansi Regiment (Capt. Lakshmi Sahgal)
⚖️ Red Fort Trials (1945):
- Accused: Shah Nawaz Khan, Prem Sahgal, Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon
- Defense Lawyers: Bhulabhai Desai, Nehru, Tej Bahadur Sapru
- Result: Public pressure forced British to commute sentences
📜 Cabinet Mission Plan (1946) Super PYQ
Members: Pethick Lawrence, Stafford Cripps, A.V. Alexander
Objective: Transfer of power
✅ Key Proposals:
- Rejected Pakistan: No separate nation based on religion
- Constituent Assembly: To be elected to frame Constitution
- Interim Government: To be formed immediately
- Grouping of Provinces: Group A (Hindu majority), Group B & C (Muslim majority)
🎉 Independence & Partition (1947)
🗓️ Timeline to Freedom:
Direct Action Day (16 Aug 1946): Called by Jinnah (Great Calcutta Killings)
Interim Govt (Sept 1946): Nehru as Vice President of Executive Council
Attlee's Declaration (Feb 1947): British to leave by June 1948
Mountbatten Plan (3 June 1947): Plan for Partition (India & Pakistan) PYQ
Indian Independence Act (July 1947): Formalized independence
15 August 1947: India becomes Independent! 🇮🇳
🚧 Boundary Commission:
- Chairman: Sir Cyril Radcliffe
- Radcliffe Line: Boundary between India & Pakistan
🤔 Gandhi vs Ambedkar (Ideological Clash)
| Issue |
Gandhi's View |
Ambedkar's View |
| Caste System |
Wanted to reform it (Varnashrama Dharma) |
Wanted to annihilate it completely |
| Untouchability |
Social evil, to be removed by "change of heart" |
Product of caste system, needs legal/political rights |
| Method |
Harijan Sevak Sangh (Welfare) |
Political Power (Separate Electorates) |
🎯 PYQ Sniper Shots
Q: "Do or Die" slogan given by?
A: Mahatma Gandhi (Quit India Movement)
Q: Who ran the secret Congress Radio?
A: Usha Mehta
Q: Parallel Govt in Ballia was led by?
A: Chittu Pandey
Q: INA trials were held at?
A: Red Fort, Delhi
Q: Cabinet Mission members?
A: Lawrence, Cripps, Alexander
Q: Who was the last Viceroy of India?
A: Lord Mountbatten
Q: Who was the first Indian Governor-General?
A: C. Rajagopalachari
Q: Direct Action Day date?
A: 16 August 1946
UPPCS Modern India • From Your Class Notes