It was a beehive of activity during the freedom movement and many people from Amruthur had participated in the 1942 Quit India Movement and had courted arrest.
It is named after the August Kranti Maidan formerly known as the Gowalia Tank Maidan from where the Quit India Movement was launched in August 1942.
Mahatma Gandhi once comes to Garhmukteshwar via train after his successful movement to thanxs Landlord of Jhadina and also financer of Meerut 1942 Quit India Movement.
Some of the weapons used by the Bahini men were procured during the Quit India Movement.
When Mahatma Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement in August, 1942, Yogendra Shukla scaled the wall of Hazaribagh Central Jail along with Jayaprakash Narayan, Suraj Narayan Singh, Gulab Chand Gupta, Ramnandan Mishra and Shaligram Singh with a view to starting an underground movement for freedom.
The only outside support came from the Americans, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured Prime Minister Winston Churchill to give in to Indian demands.
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Although at the national level the ability to galvanize rebellion was limited, the movement is notable for regional success especially at Satara in Maharashtra, Talcher in Orissa, and Midnapore.
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The pedestal includes inscriptions and images highlighting milestones in Gandhi's life including the Dandi March in 1930, Quit India Movement in 1942, Champaran Satyagraha in 1917, and an image of Charkha symbolizing the call for self-rule by the Father of the Nation.
In August 1942, after Mahatma Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement, the British began clamping down on Indian freedom fighters and censoring the media.