Born

July 16, 1909

Kalka, Punjab, British India (nowHaryana)

ARUNA ASAF ALI

Died 29 July 1996 (aged 87)

On August 8, 1942, the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India resolution at the Bombay session. The government responded by arresting the major leaders and all members of theCongress Working Committee and thus tried to pre-empt the movement from success. A young Aruna Asaf Ali presided over the remainder of the session on 9 August and hoisted the Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan. This marked the commencement of the movement. The police fired upon the assembly at the session. Aruna was dubbed the Heroine of the 1942 movement for her bravery in the face of danger and was called Grand Old Lady of the Independence movement in her later years. Despite absence of direct leadership, spontaneous protests and demonstrations were held all over the country, as an expression of desire of Indias youth to achieve independence.

Born

23 March 1910

Akbarpur, Uttar Pradesh, British

India

Died

12 October 1967 (aged 57)

DR.RAM MANOHAR LOHIA

New Delhi, India

Gandhi and the Indian National Congress launched the Quit India movement in 1942. Prominent leaders, including Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Azad, were jailed. The "secondary cadre" stepped-up to the challenge to continue the struggle and to keep the flame for swaraj burning within the people's hearts. Leaders who were still free carried out their operations from underground. Lohia printed and distributed many posters, pamphlets and bulletins on the theme of "Do or Die" on his secret printing-press. Lohia, along with freedom fighter Usha Mehta, broadcast messages in Bombay from a secret radio station called Congress Radio for three months before detection, as a measure to give the disarrayed Indian population a sense of hope and spirit in absence of their leaders. He also edited Inquilab (Revolution), a Congress Party monthly along with Aruna Asaf Ali,Abdan Shaikh and Madiha took part in the Quit India Movement.

Achyut Patwardhan (Devangar:

; 5 February 1905 5 August 1992.) was an Indian independence activist and political leader and founder of the Socialist Party of India. He

was also a philosopher who believed fundamental change in society begins with man himself.

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He took a prominent part in the Quit India movement which started in 1942. In 194546 he went underground, and evading arrest, he ably directed the movement of a parallel government mainly in the Satara district. He was called thereafter by many as (The Lion of Satara). The parallel government was established by terrorist methods. It was called Patri Sarkar. Patri was the name given to the terrible and torturous punishments ad ministered to Government servants and people who dared to obstruct the parallel government. These punishments disabled people for life. The ring-leader of the gangs who looted Government offices, treasuries and trains was Nana Patil. The parallel government thus collected a loot of more than a lakh. Some of the associates in these atrocities were mere desperadoes who knew little of politics or socialism. The Government penetrated into the villages where the Government machinery broke down completely.

Shri Shridhar Mahadev or S.M., as he was popularly known among his colleagues, friends and admirers, was born in a lower middle class Brahmin family at Junnar in Pune District, on 12th November, 1904. . He died on 1st April, 1989 When Gandhiji gave the clarion call for the Quit India Movement in 1942, which shook the foundation of the British Empire, the Government decided to crush the movement with its all might and arrested all Congress leaders including those at the district level. The people and leaders were, however, equally, if not more, determined to carry on the struggle. In a

bid to complete the task in a Do or Die spirit, SM, along with his colleagues like Achyut Patwardhan, Shirubhau Limaye and others set up an underground organization. SM, who could speak Urdu very fluently mover all over India, including Karachi, masquerading as a Maulvi by the name of Imam Ali and met various leaders who were underground. The organization became a vital communication link and conduit for leaders from one part of the country to the other. Many of the revolutionaries killed in this struggle and SM himself had a narrow escape a number of times. Immense concern for human suffering in SM propelled Page 3 of 4 him to extend support to the families of revolutionary leaders. However, in 1943 police raided a house in Bombay and arrested many underground revolutionaries including SM. The Government which wanted to conduct a trial of these revolutionaries as Maharashtra Conspiracy Case could not do so for want of evidence. However, they were imprisoned unjustly, as under trials foe a long period of three years.

Sucheta Kriplani (Bengali: , Hindi: ) (25 June 1908

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1 December 1974

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), born Sucheta Mazumdar, was an Indianfreedom fighter and politician in Uttar

Pradesh, India. She became the first woman to be elected Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Like her contemporaries Aruna Asaf Ali and Usha Mehta, she came to the forefront during the Quit India Movement. She later worked closely withMahatma Gandhi during the Partition riots. She accompanied him to Noakhali in 1946. She was one of the few women who were elected to the Constituent Assembly and was part of the subcommittee that drafted the Indian Constitution. She became a part of the subcommittee that was handed over the task of laying down the charter for the constitution of India. On 15 August 1947 she sang Vande Mataram in the Independence Session of the Constituent Assembly.