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Quit India Movement (Part-I)

📆 October 23, 2024

Total Questions: 36

11. Quit India movement began on: [48th to 52nd B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2008]

Correct Answer: (a) 9th August, 1942
Solution:The historic session of the All India Congress Committee began on 7th August, 1942, and was concluded on 8th August, 1942, at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay. Quit India Movement began on 9th August, 1942. The Committee asserted India's right to freedom and decided to start a mass struggle with non-violent means on the widest possible scale. Addressing the conference, Gandhiji gave the call “Do or Die,” either to get India free or to die in this attempt. But before the Movement could be launched, Gandhiji and all other leaders of the Congress were imprisoned under Operation Zero Hour. Gandhiji and Sarojini Naidu were kept in Agha Khan Palace at Poona (now Pune). The Movement of 1942 mostly affected the states of Bombay, Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, United Province (U.P.), and Madras. Though the whole country participated in this Movement.

12. Quit India Movement was launched in the year [Chhattisgarh P.C.S. (Pre) 2023]

Correct Answer: (a) 1942
Solution:The historic session of the All India Congress Committee began on 7th August, 1942, and was concluded on 8th August, 1942, at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay. Quit India Movement began on 9th August, 1942. The Committee asserted India's right to freedom and decided to start a mass struggle with non-violent means on the widest possible scale. Addressing the conference, Gandhiji gave the call “Do or Die,” either to get India free or to die in this attempt. But before the Movement could be launched, Gandhiji and all other leaders of the Congress were imprisoned under Operation Zero Hour. Gandhiji and Sarojini Naidu were kept in Agha Khan Palace at Poona (now Pune). The Movement of 1942 mostly affected the states of Bombay, Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, United Province (U.P.), and Madras. Though the whole country participated in this Movement.

13. Quit India Movement was started on: [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 1996]

Correct Answer: (b) 9th August, 1942
Solution:The historic session of the All India Congress Committee began on 7th August, 1942, and was concluded on 8th August, 1942, at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay. Quit India Movement began on 9th August, 1942. The Committee asserted India's right to freedom and decided to start a mass struggle with non-violent means on the widest possible scale. Addressing the conference, Gandhiji gave the call “Do or Die,” either to get India free or to die in this attempt. But before the Movement could be launched, Gandhiji and all other leaders of the Congress were imprisoned under Operation Zero Hour. Gandhiji and Sarojini Naidu were kept in Agha Khan Palace at Poona (now Pune). The Movement of 1942 mostly affected the states of Bombay, Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, United Province (U.P.), and Madras. Though the whole country participated in this Movement.

14. Quit India Movement was launched in response to: [I.A.S. (Pre) 2013]

Correct Answer: (b) Cripps Proposals
Solution:The failure of Cripps Mission (1942) led to the Quit India Movement. The Cripps Mission was sent after the decision taken by the British War Cabinet in 1942 to grant Dominion Status to India after the War and equal treatment to the Indians on par with other dominions such as Canada and Australia. It was sent amidst the political belligerence in India on various fronts, such as the lack of faith in the British Army's capacity to defend India against aggressive Japan and the increasing demand for a separate state by the League and Jinnah. But the most important factor was the pressure on Churchill to win the support of Indians for the British cause in the War.

15. Baldev Sahai resigned from the post of advocate general in: [48th to 52nd B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2008]

Correct Answer: (a) 1942
Solution:Under operation zero hour, Indian leaders were arrested during the Quit India Movement. To protest this and other oppressive acts of the government, Baldev Sahai resigned in 1942 from the post of advocate general.

16. Which one of the following observations is not true about the Quit India Movement of 1942? [I.A.S. (Pre) 2011]

Correct Answer: (e) Both A & B
Solution:The Quit India Movement of 1942 was not entirely non-violent. According to official assessments, in the first week, 250 railway stations were damaged or destroyed, more than 500 post offices and 150 police stations were attacked. Heavy violence was used for the suppression of the Movement by the ruling party. Mahatma Gandhi himself in 1942 refused to condemn the violence, stating it was an answer to the huge violence of the rulers. The arrest of the main leaders made the Movement more aggressive.

17. Quit India Movement was led by: [45th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2001]

Correct Answer: (c) Mahatma Gandhi
Solution:In August 1942, Mahatma Gandhi launched the 'Quit India' Movement. The next day, Gandhi, Nehru, and many other leaders of the Indian National Congress were arrested by the British Government. Therefore, the most appropriate option is (c).

18. Consider the following statements - On the eve of the launch of the Quit India Movement, Mahatma Gandhi: [I.A.S. (Pre) 2005]

  1. Asked Government servants to resign.
  2. Asked the soldiers to leave their posts.
  3. Asked the Princes of the Princely States to accept the sovereignty of their people.

Which of the statements is/are correct?

Correct Answer: (c) 3 only
Solution:On the eve of commencing the Quit India Movement, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi had given the following statements:
  1. Government employees should not leave their work but should declare their allegiance to Congress.
  2. Soldiers should refuse to fire on their countrymen.
  3. Students should leave their study only if they stay firm on their decision until freedom is achieved.
  4. The Princes of the Princely States should accept the Sovereignty of their people and people living in their States should declare them as a part of the Indian Nation and accept the leadership of the king only when they link their future with the public.

Thus, only the 3rd statement is correct.

19. The statement, "We shall either free India or die in the attempt" is associated with: [U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2009]

Correct Answer: (d) Quit India Movement
Solution:The statement is associated with the 'Quit India Movement.' On August 8, 1942, the resolution for Quit India Movement was passed with certain amendments. Gandhiji's statement was: “I am not going to be satisfied with anything short of Complete Freedom. Maybe the British Government will propose the abolition of salt tax, the drink evil, etc., but I will say, ‘nothing less than freedom.’ Here is a mantra that I give you. You may imprint it on your hearts and let every breath of yours give expression to it. The mantra is: ‘Do or Die.’ We shall either free India or die in the attempt."

20. The slogan ‘Do or Die’ was given by: [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 1991]

Correct Answer: (d) Mahatma Gandhi
Solution:The statement is associated with the 'Quit India Movement.' On August 8, 1942, the resolution for Quit India Movement was passed with certain amendments. Gandhiji's statement was: “I am not going to be satisfied with anything short of Complete Freedom. Maybe the British Government will propose the abolition of salt tax, the drink evil, etc., but I will say, ‘nothing less than freedom.’ Here is a mantra that I give you. You may imprint it on your hearts and let every breath of yours give expression to it. The mantra is: ‘Do or Die.’ We shall either free India or die in the attempt."
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