When Nonviolence Failed: Hunting for the Secret List of Leaders of India’s Wartime Struggle

Figure 1: Beohar Rammanohar Sinha, “Quit India” mural, c. 1952, Jabalpur, Shaheed Smarak Image credit: Abrsinha

By Rikhil Bhavnani and Saumitra Jha This is a story of a quest for new data, and an attempt to fill in a key gap in our understanding of one of the most important nonviolent movements in world history. The “Quit India” struggle of 1942 was Mohandas Gandhi’s third and last great nonviolent movement aimed … Continue reading When Nonviolence Failed: Hunting for the Secret List of Leaders of India’s Wartime Struggle