{"id":141,"date":"2011-10-09T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=141"},"modified":"2011-10-09T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T14:40:02","slug":"august-8-1942-quit-india-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/august-8-1942-quit-india-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"August 8, 1942: Quit India Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>July 14- the Congress Working Committee proposes a civil disobedience movement against British presence in India, though Nehru did not support the campaign (Kux, 23)<\/li>\n<li>August 8- the All-India Congress Committee adopts the Quit India resolution in Bombay<\/li>\n<li>In response the British Raj imprisoned leaders of the Congress Party; over the duration of the war, the British put more than 100,000 Indians in jail for expressing nationalist\u00a0fervor\u00a0(Kux, 23-24)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kux, <em>Estranged Democracies<\/em>\u00a0(1993)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kux describes American bewilderment at the implementation of a civil disobedience movement in the middle of a crucial point in the war (24)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aldrich, <em>Intelligence and the War Against Japan<\/em>\u00a0(2000).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The movement made India &#8220;a major internal security problem&#8221; and therefore a political stability became a focus of OSS reports (135)<\/li>\n<li>Marks as the moment when Washington had increasing political interests in India (135)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hess, <em>America Encounters India<\/em>\u00a0(1971)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Roosevelt acquiesced to British policy&#8221; (60)<\/li>\n<li>Gandhi was rightly concerned with American public opinion as there was an &#8220;adverse American press reaction&#8221; to the movement. Gandhi appealed directly to Roosevelt in a July 1 letter (68-71)<\/li>\n<li>pressure from Chinese government pushed Roosevelt to approach Churchill on the issue, but rather than endorsing Chiang Kai-shek&#8217;s plan, Roosevelt merely presents it, giving Churchill an easy opportunity to shoot it down, which Hess thinks is weak (77)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 14- the Congress Working Committee proposes a civil disobedience movement against British presence in India, though Nehru did not support the campaign (Kux, 23) August 8- the All-India Congress Committee adopts the Quit India resolution in Bombay In response &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/august-8-1942-quit-india-movement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39568],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}