ABSTRACT
Within weeks of Cripps’ departure from India, Gandhi began to discuss a counterplan for India’s freedom, fi rst disturbing his nationalist leadership team and then drawing them into support for his plan to convince the British that they should leave India. Gandhi’s step back to centre stage and the Working Committee’s reluctant arrival at the decision to support his Quit India movement unifi ed the leadership, which had fractured over the issue of nonviolence, advocated by Gandhi, as a response should the Japanese invade.1
