🏛️ History & Art-CultureUPSC 2009British Policies in India

With which one of the following movements is the slogan “Do or Die” associated?

aSwadeshi Movement
bNon-Cooperation Movement
cCivil Disobedience Movement
dQuit India Movement
✓ Correct answer: d) Quit India Movement
ExplanationMahatma Gandhi gave the slogan “Do or Die” during his speech at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay on August 8, 1942. The Quit India Movement, also known as the August Movement or August Kranti Movement, began on this day.Gandhi’s speech was a final push to force the British to leave India.He said, “We shall do or die.We shall either free India or die in the attempt; we shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery”.Modern History 101 127

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