What was the reason for his arrest in August 1942?
Protesting the Rowlatt Act
Demanding Independence
Under DIR
Joining the Navy Mutiny
Answer
Under the Defence of India Rules (DIR), Mahatma Gandhi was arrested in August 1942. He had launched the Quit India Movement, a civil disobedience campaign demanding an end to British rule. The British authorities saw this as a threat to their wartime security and responded with mass arrests and repression of the movement.
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