Question

Through various national movements, Gandhiji mobilised public support to win freedom for India. In this context, state the following:

The name was given to the uprising of 1942. Two reasons for launching this mass uprising.

Answer 1

The Uprising of 1942 was named the ‘Quit India Movement’. Two causes of the Uprising of 1942:

Failure of the Cripps’ Mission: The Cripps Mission was sent to India under Stafford Cripps for suggesting constitutional reforms in India. However, the proposals of the Mission were soundly rejected by all sections of Indian society for the following reasons:

• The Cripps’ Mission did not mention any plan of political independence for India in the near future.
• The plan proposed the partition of India.
• The Muslim League was against the creation of a single union. The Cripps proposals did not accept the two-nation theory and refused to recognise the right of self-determination of the Muslims.
• The Hindu Mahasabha rejected the proposals as it was against the partition of India.
• The Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians and labour leaders refused to accept the proposals as they provided no safeguards for their interests.

Japanese Threat: As Gandhi said, the British presence in India was an invitation for the Japanese to attack her. The withdrawal of the British would remove the bait. The Indian nationalists did not want to fall into the clutches of Japanese slavery from British colonial domination. To ensure that this did not happen, the Quit India Movement was launched.