RAS question
The Quit India Resolution was passed at:
Correct answer: (B) Bombay (Gowalia Tank Maidan).
The Quit India Resolution was passed on 8 August 1942 at the AICC session held at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay.
Explanation
The Quit India Resolution belongs to the decisive 1942 phase of the Indian national movement. The AICC session was held at Gowalia Tank Maidan, now August Kranti Maidan, in Bombay on 8 August 1942. The official President of India release records the core point: on 8 August 1942, the All India Congress Committee formally adopted in Bombay a resolution calling on the British to Quit India, and the movement was launched the next day, 9 August 1942. That is why Bombay, specifically Gowalia Tank Maidan, is the correct venue, not a later commemorative site or a preparatory meeting place.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Delhi is wrong because the AICC did not pass the Quit India Resolution there; the adoption took place in Bombay.
- (C) Allahabad is wrong because the resolution was not passed at Allahabad; the President of India account identifies Bombay as the place of formal adoption.
- (D) Wardha is wrong because it relates to the July 1942 Congress Working Committee drafting stage, whereas the resolution was passed later at the AICC session in Bombay.
Concept
This tests Modern Indian History, especially the chronology and institutional setting of the Quit India Movement. RAS often asks such location-date links because they separate the drafting of a resolution from its formal adoption and launch.