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Mahatma Gandhi And The Nationalist Movement

Question
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What was the attitude of the Indian National Congress towards the Second World War?

Solution

1. The Second World War started in September, 1939. With the outbreak of the war, the British Government made India a party to the war without consulting the Indian people. The Indian National Congress demanded that a national government should be immediately formed and that Britain should promise that India would become independent as soon as the war would be over.

2. The British Government refused to meet this demand. The Congress ministries that had been formed in (1937) the provinces resigned in November, 1939. There were strikes and demonstrations in various parts of the country against the dragging of India into the war.