IMPACT OF QUIT INDIA RESOLUTION IN ASSAM: A HISTORICAL STUDY

Abstract

The Indian National Movement was undoubtedly one of the biggest mass movements modern societies has ever seen. It was a movement which galvanized millions of people of all classes and ideologies into political action and brought into knees the mighty colonial empire. The Political developments of the years immediately preceding 1942 movement in Assam, were characterized as much by sharpening of the local conflicts of’ interests as by a clearer pattern of their entanglements with the ideological conflicts serving as prelude to the great national struggle.1 Yet, there were no clear ideological alignments in terms of party organization. The Congress dominated the field but leaving the Congress and communal elements apart, broadly speaking, it was the freedom fighters who swarmed the two valleys-Brahmaputra and Barak.2