Author: Reese Bannister

Mahatma Gandhi decided to walk through dozens of villages, pausing regularly to hold meetings, preparing the audience for the civil disobedience. On 12th March 1930, at 6.30 a.m.Gandhiji along with 78 selected followers/Styagrahis began his 241-mile (386 km) march from Sabarmati/Satyagraha Ashram, Ahmedabad to Dandi. This distance was to be covered in 24 days.Gandhiji (61 years) was the eldest and the leader of the group. Kasturba applied the benedictory tilak to Gandhiji’s forehead and garlanded him with khadi and handed him the walking stick. Tilak, khadi and stick sybolised devotion, simplicity and strength respectively. Image Source: 185.26.182.219/Rqae5eb53b-c103-49e4-a363-9cb05f81161d ADVERTISEMENTS: Gandhiji’s method of March was a huge success and people participate in his public meetings in large number.Vallabbhai Patel moved in advance to all the important places located on the designated route…

In the backdrop of the failure of Cripps Mission, imminent Japanese threat, the British attitude towards Indians who were left behind in Burma and the prevailing anger and hostility to an alien and meaningless war, Quit India Resolution was passed on 8 August 1942 by AICC at Gowalia Tank, Bombay. Gandhi told the British to quit and ‘leave India in God’s hand’. His message was ‘Do or Die’.On 9th August, however, all the Congress leaders were put behind the bars and the Congress was declared an illegal body.The agitated mass devoid of leadership resort to violent riots, assaults and sporadic disorder in most parts of the country. The Government adopted extreme repression, the brutality of which had no parallel in the Indian National Movement. Image Source: upload.wikimedia.org ADVERTISEMENTS: It was…