Vol. 9, Issue 3, Part B (2023)

Abstract
Women followed Mahatma Gandhi's example and joined the Quit India Movement, which is the subject of this study. In the wake of the Quit India Movement, both the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny and the Indian National Army (INA) actions led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose shook the basis of the British Empire in India. Rani Jhansi regiment INA associate and commander, Captain Lakshmi Sehgal of Madras. During this time period, women took the strict discipline and selflessness they practised at home and applied it to the entire country. Early 1940s women, it appears, were eager to demonstrate Gandhi's correctness.