State two reasons for the launching of the Quit India Movement.

(1) The FAILURE OF THE CRIPPS MISSION in March 1942. It offered only Dominion Status after the war and allowed provinces to stay out of the Union — terms the Congress rejected as "a post-dated cheque on a crashing bank" — and it convinced them that the British had no intention of transferring real power. (2) The FEAR OF A JAPANESE INVASION after the fall of Singapore, Malaya and Burma, together with wartime hardship — shortages, soaring prices and the government’s failure to protect its own subjects. Indians felt that only a free India could defend herself, and resented having been dragged into the war without the consent of her leaders.

Three marks for two reasons, so each must be developed rather than merely named. The failure of the Cripps Mission is the immediate cause and must come first. The "post-dated cheque" phrase is worth quoting; examiners recognise it at once. Fix the dates so as not to confuse this with earlier movements: Cripps came in March 1942, and the Quit India Resolution was passed at Bombay on 8 August 1942 with Gandhiji’s call "Do or Die".