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e 'Quit India' movement was followed, nonetheless, by large-scale violence directed

at railway stations, telegraph offices, government buildings, and other emblems and institutions of colonial rule.

here were widespread acts of sabotage, and the government held Gandhi responsible for these acts of violence, suggesting that they were a deliberate act of Congress policy.

It has been suggested by other scholars that though Gandhi himself did not authorize violence, he had grown skeptical of the efficacy of non-violence, and that he had arrived at the point in his life where he was determined to see India attain independence during his lifetime.