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The Fast Gandhiji began his fast for allaying the communal frenzy and restoration of sanity in Calcutta at 8-15 p.m. on the 1st of September, 1947, and broke it at 9-15 p.m. on the 4th instant with a glass of sweet lime juice which Mr. Suhrawardy served to him.
May and August of 1933 saw Gandhi’s 21 and 7 days fasts in favour of the conditions of untouchables and against untouchables trying to obtain privileges awarded by the British government. In 1942 the National Congress launched the last attack on the British rule; ‘Quit India’. In 1943 Gandhi was arrested.
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Jan 28, 2022 · Dealing with voluntary forms of fasting and the significance of fasting as a religious and political practice, the chapter reveals how Gandhi shaped it into a powerful weapon for personal purification and social change, for the resolution of conflict, and, for the generation of guilt feelings in wrongdoers.
The Quit India Movement was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in India.
The Quit India Movement (Bharat Chhodo Andolan or the August Movement) was a civil disobedience movement in India launched in August 1942, in response to Mahatma Gandhi's call for the immediate independence of India.
The response occurs with his Satyagraha in the city, beginning at the time of independence and culminating in his Calcutta fast of early September 1947. The paper examines his response to the crisis there, and the manner in which the city responded to him. It.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, informally The Father of the Nation in India, undertook 18 fasts during India's freedom movement. His longest fasts lasted 21 days.
