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By Prof. Shamsul Islam On the eve of 80th anniversary of the glorious Quit India Movement 1942 we must evaluate the role of the Hindutva flag-bearers in India's anti-colonial freedom struggle who claim to be the original nationalists. QIM also known as ‘August Kranti' (August Revolution) was a nation-wide Civil Disobedience Movement for which a call was given on August 7, 1942 by the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee. It was to begin on August 9 as per Gandhi's call to ‘Do or Die’ in his Quit...