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On the Stamp
The Martyrs’ Memorial at Patna: seven young men pressing forward with the national flag, with the words “1942 Quit India” in Hindi and English, on a 15 paise stamp.
Quit India
India Post issued this stamp on 1 October 1967 for the 25th anniversary of the Quit India movement. On 8 August 1942 the All India Congress Committee, meeting in Bombay, called on the British to quit India, and Gandhi gave the people his watchword, “Do or Die”. Gandhi and the Congress leaders were arrested the next morning, and the country rose in protests, strikes and sabotage that were put down with great force. At Patna, on 11 August 1942, seven students were shot dead while trying to raise the national flag on the Secretariat. The Martyrs’ Memorial built there in their honour, the bronze group by the sculptor Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury shown on the stamp, stands outside the Secretariat today.
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