The Quit India Act (Hindi: भारत छोड़ो आन्दोलन Bhārat Chhodo Āndolan), or the India August Movement (August Kranti) was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in response toMohandas Karamchand Gandhi's call for satyagraha. The All-India Congress Committee proclaimed a mass protest demanding what Gandhiji called "an orderly British withdrawal" from India. The call for determined, but passive resistance appears in his call to Do or Die, issued on 8 August at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai on year 1942.