Question

Outline the key incidents during the Quit India Movement in Tamil Nadu.

Answer 1

On 8^th August 1942, the Quit India resolution was passed. The entire congress leadership was arrested overnight.

1. At every railway station, the policemen waited with a list of local leaders and arrested them when they got down.
2. Kamaraj who saw this on his return from the Bombay conference slipped from police arrest. He then worked underground and organized the people during Quit India Movement.
3. All sections of society participated in the movement.
4. There were many instances of violence such as setting fire to post offices Vellore and Panapakkam.
5. Gutting of telegraph lines.
6. Congress volunteers clashed with the Military in Madurai.
7. Disrupting railway traffic trains derailed in Coimbatore.
8. There were police firings at Rajapalayam, Karaikudi, and Devakottai.