The Quit India Movement,or the Aug Movement (August Kranti) was a civil disobedience movement launched in Indian in Aug 1942 in reaction to Mohandas Gandhi's call for 'Satyagraha' (independence). The All-India The Congress Committee announced a huge demonstration challenging what Gandhi known as "an orderly British withdrawal" from India. The call for identified, but inactive level of resistance seems to be in his call to Do or Die, released on 8 Aug at the Gowalia Container Maidan in Mumbai on year 1942.