Talk:Quit India Movement

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Despite this, Gandhi went on protest 21-day fasts and maintained a superhuman resolve to continous resistance. How much is that? POV-warning, as I see it. -FredrikM

I am removing the NPOV tag in Contributions to India's Independence heading since no argument is made here in favour of why it is thought that it not NPOV. Referenced sources used for the factual depiction of erstwhile and present day conclusions of the movement's success or failure.Ranam 16:37, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citations needed.

Will a knowledgeable person please provide sources for the following paragraph? Otherwise, it will have to be removed or substantially shortened.

The British swiftly responded by mass detentions. A total over 100,000 arrests were made nationwide, mass fines were levied, bombs were air-dropped and demonstrators were subjected to public flogging[citation needed]. Hundreds of resisters and innocent people were killed in police and army firings. Many national leaders went underground and continued their struggle by broadcasting messages over clandestine radio stations, distributing pamphlets, and establishing parallel governments. The British sense of crisis was strong enough that a battleship was specifically set aside to take Gandhi and the Congress leaders out of India, possibly to South Africa or Yemen, but such a step was ultimately not taken out of fear of intensifying the revolt[citation needed].

Sincerely, 20:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

See James L citation in the reference section.Rueben lys 23:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Many things about this seem shaky, especially the claim that 'innocent' people were killed in 'firings.' I would think that a better word should be substituted for 'firings.' Also, I would think that persons in the immediate area of a riot are not really innocent, they would have been trying to leave otherwise. Protestors, on the other hand, even if breaking an unjust law, are still not 'innocent.'TaylorSAllen 21:49, 8 February 2007 (UTC)