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Precursors

There are three prominent events leading up to Indian independence from British Colonial Rule.

Clean Break speech

Although the militant Harow fgdfgffactions of the Independence movement were advocating a complete break from British rule for almost a century, the first call from the non-violent movement led by Mahatma Gandhi was articulated in the aftermath of the failed Cripps' mission in April, 1942. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: , Hindi: , IAST: mohandās karamcand gāndhī, IPA: ) (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948), was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. ... Sir Stafford Cripps Mission was an attempt in late March of 1942 by the British War Cabinet to secure Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II. Led by Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, the majority Indian National Congress and its supporters were engaged in a program of... This article or section needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Excerpt of Mahatma Gandhi's speech advocating complete independence from British rule.[1]

"I am convinced that the time has come for the British and the Indians to be reconciled to complete separation from each other. Complete and immediate orderly withdrawal of the British from India [...] will at once put the Allied cause on a completely moral basis. [...] I ask every Briton to support me in my appeal to the British at this hour to retire from every Asiatic and African possession. ... I ask for a bloodless end of an unnatural domination and for a new era. Leave India to God and if that be too much, leave her to anarchy, necessity for withdrawal lies in its being immediate."

Gandhi included "every Asiatic and African" colony to be made free in pursuit of the moral high ground and exposed the common imperial vanity of being the sole providers of civilized society and stable governance, saying "Leave India to God and if that be too much, leave her to anarchy".

Quit India Resolution

The All India Congress Committee met in Bombay and passed the Quit India resolution on August 8, 1942. The outcome was a mass uprising all over India with mass boycotts and civil disobedience, called the Quit India Movement is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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 Gandhis call for immediate independence of India. ...

QUIT INDIA RESOLUTION (August 7-8,1942, Bombay, A.I.C.C.) [2]

Declaring the close of the Colonial era

On August 15, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of free India, addressed the Constituent Assembly declaring the end of the colonial era and calling on citizens to recognize the promise and opportunity of the moment: is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance."

His speech [3] went on to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi's efforts in the Independence Movement and called upon his countrymen to work together to

"bring freedom and opportunity to the common man, to the peasants and workers of India; to fight and end poverty and ignorance and disease; to build up a prosperous, democratic and progressive nation, and to create social, economic and political institutions which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman."

The declaration ends with an exhortation to work together in the common weal and cautions against narrow sectarian or religious divisiveness:

"All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action."

See also

• Constitution of India
• Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India