Quit India speech [SEP] point in time
Quit India speech
The Quit India speech is a speech made by  Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. He called for determined, but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for the movement, best described by his call to "Do or Die". His speech was issued at the Gowalia Tank Maidan park in Bombay (now Mumbai), since renamed "August Kranti Maidan" (August Revolution Ground). However, almost the entire Congress leadership, and
the Quit India speech at Gowalia Tank in Mumbai, demanding that the British leave India. Shastri, who had just then come out after a year in prison, travelled to Allahabad. For a week, he sent instructions to the independence activists from Jawaharlal Nehru's home, Anand Bhavan. A few days later, he was arrested and imprisoned until 1946. Shastri spent almost nine years in jail in total. During his stay in prison, he spent time reading books and became familiar with the works of western philosophers, revolutionaries