Mahatma Gandhi's Quit India & The Colonil Impulse

This empirical research oriented paper attempts to study under which circumstances the Quit India struggle was launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 along with the different stages it has gone through when it became finally spent force in the middle of 1943. The response of the public was massive. The British colonial impulse enable Indian Government to annihilate the movement in every possible way despite this fact that glow of freedom from the colonial shackles was visible in the middle of twentieth century. In order to make the theme comprehensive, the private papers of the Viceroy, Transfer of Power Documents of the British, British Government's Command Papers, biographies and autobiographies of Mahatma Gandhi and the Viceroy, Government of India's Fortnightly Reports etc. have been utilized.