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Examine why Quit India Movement was started and how do you think the Quit India Movement was genuinely a mass movement.

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'Oral testimonies and memories are the important sources for constructing the history of partition of India.' Examine the statement.

 

Answer:

?Quit India Movement? was started in 1942 because:

(a) Cripps Mission was failed.

(b) The entry of the Axis power Japan in India during the Second World War.

(c) Defeat of British in Second World War.

(d) Gandhiji launched "Quit India Movement" against the British rule.

(e) It was a mass movement bringing into the ambit, hundred of thousands ordinary Indians.

(f) It especially energised the young who in large number left their college and joined Congress, whose leaders captivated in jails.

Or

Oral narratives and memories are the important sources for constructing the history of partition of India.

(a) Memories and Experiences: Millions of people viewed Partition in terms of the suffering and challenges of times. For them it was no more constitutional divisions or just the party politics of the Muslim League, Congress and others. For them, it meant the unexpected alterations in life as it is unfolded between 1946 and 1950 and beyond requiring psychological, emotional and social adjustments. Memories and experiences shape the reality of an event.

(b) Oral Narration: Oral history allows historians to broaden, the boundaries of their discipline by rescuing from oblivion, the lived experience of the poor and the powerless. The oral history of partition has succeeded in exploring the experiences of those men and women whose experience has hitherto been ignored, taken for granted or mentioned only in passing in mainstream history.