09-8-2017: 1942 FREEDOM MOVEMENT A commemorative postage stamp

On 26th April, 1942 Gandhiji wrote an essay on ‘Quit India’ in the ‘Harijan Patrika’. Therafter, the nation of Quit India Movement Committee approved a resolution which declared that the immediate ending of British rule in India is an urgent necessity both for the sake of India and for the success of the cause of the United Nations’. The failure of the Cripps Mission was another event which triggered off the Quit India Movement. The British were prepared for this massive uprising. The British acted quickly and arrested thousands of people. Most of the leaders arrested had to spend the next three years in jail, until world War II ended.