Prelims · 2 Modern India · 2.14 Freedom and partition 1939–1947

2.14.2 Second World War: the August Offer and individual satyagraha

The British offer of August 1940 promised a post-war constituent body and no more, so the Congress answered with a symbolic individual satyagraha rather than a mass movement.

  • APPSC Group 2 · Prelims
  • Standard level
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Key terms

  • Second World War
  • Linlithgow
  • August Offer
  • Poona resolution
  • individual satyagraha
  • Vinoba Bhave
  • Delhi Chalo
  • Ramgarh
  • Atlantic Charter

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