[General Studies- I: History] [10 Marks, 150 words] 

Answer Structure:

• Introduction – Gandhi’s leadership
• Body – The reasons for launch of movement
• Conclusion- Results of movement

Answer 

Introduction

Quit India Movement of 1942 was the last mass movement under the leadership of Gandhiji.

Body

The reasons for launch of this movement are

• The failure of the Cripps Mission and Britain’s unwillingness to offer a real constitutional advance.
• Mounting popular discontent, a product of rising prices and wartime shortages.
• High-handed government actions such as the commandeering of boats in Bengal and Orissa to prevent their being used by the Japanese. 
• Growing feeling of an imminent British collapse, the news of Allied reverses and British withdrawals from South-East Asia and Burma. 
• Loss of faith in the stability of British rule, people started withdrawing deposits from banks and started hoarding gold, silver and coins. 

Conclusion

Results

It placed the demand for independence on the immediate agenda of the national movement. Any future negotiations with the British Government could only be on the manner of the transfer of power. 

The outbreak of the Quit India Movement gave a fillip to the INA as well.