Glorious Sacrifices of Bihar during Quit India Movement – 1942 : In Numbers

During the 1942, Quit India Movement at 122 different places, police fired upon the peaceful unarmed Indian patriots martyring around 2000 people in Bihar alone.
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We have been listening about the sacrifices made by our elders to gain freedom from British rule, but rarely do we realize the enormity of the offerings made by them to this nation.

Here, we are presenting district-wise empirical data on the sacrifices made by Bihar during the Quit India Movement (or, the August Revolution) of 1942.

During the 1942, Quit India Movement at 122 different places, police fired upon the peaceful unarmed Indian patriots martyring around 2000 people in Bihar alone.

 

DistrictArrestedMartyred WoundedCommunity Fines
Patna4,334301218,00,000
Munger 92789351,97,700
Champaran2,00822551,03,350
Shahabad (Arrah)2,255N.AN.A50,000
Gaya1,03514N.A3,53,300
Hazaribagh13,3105336691,77,200
Bhagalpur4,0004473622,18,480
Muzaffarpur100501003,69,000
Purnea1,47546601,28,000
Saran2,000517N.A1,25,000
Ranchi394N.AN.A6,000
Darbhanga1,200381004,88,600
ManbhumN.A51634,640
Singhbhum175N.AN.A2,164
Santhal Pargana60026N.A50,000
PalamuN.AN.A1,2863,400
Total33,8131,8172,8043,106,834

 


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Saquib Salim

Saquib Salim is a well known historian under whose supervision various museums (Red Fort, National Library, IFFI, Jallianwala Bagh etc.) were researched. To his credit Mr. Salim has more than 400 published articles on history, politics, culture and literature in English and Hindi. Before pursuing his research and masters in modern Indian History from JNU, he was an electrical engineering student at AMU. Presently, he works as a freelance/ independent history researcher, writer and works at www.awazthevoice.in