Quit India Movement
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The Quit India Movement was a political campaign launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British
A 2017 stamp sheet dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement. It features the Martyr's Memorial Patna (bottom-left), Gandhi delivering his "Do or Die" speech on 8 August 1942 (3rd stamp), and a part of it: "The mantra is 'Do or Die'. We shall either free India or die in the attempt; we shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery." (1st stamp).
25th Anniversary of Quit India Movement postage stamp, 1967
Picketing in front of Medical School at Bengaluru
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was an Indian politician, ideologue, author and an anticolonial nationalist. He developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva in his 1923 pamphlet entitled Es
Quit India Movement
…states as below: Hindu nationalist parties like the Hindu Mahasabha openly opposed the call for the Quit India Movement and boycotted it officially. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the president of the Hindu Mahasabha at that time, even went to the extent of writing a letter titled Stick to your Posts, in which he instructed Hindu…
Savarkar, c. 1910
The Savarkar brothers (left to right) Narayan, Ganesh and Vinayak, with Shanta, sister Maina Kale and Yamuna
Savarkar in jail clothes
A statue of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar at Cellular Jail.