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  Newsletters : 9th August,1942-"Quit India Movement"
The historic session of the All India Congress Committee began on the 7th August 1942 and was concluded after midnight of 8th/9th August 1942 at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Mumbai.
The resolution which came to be known as 'Quit India Resolution' created on 'electrifying atmosphere' in the country.
Lathi charge and tear gas was used by the police to disperse the crowd which had gathered at Gowalia Tank Maidan.
www.gandhi-manibhavan.org /activities/quit_india.htm   (403 words)

  
  Tanks of Bombay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The CP Tank was built by Cowasji Rustamjee Patel in the Girgaum vicinity in 1775.
All that remains of the tank is a plaque on a wall opposite Metro Cinema in South Mumbai.
The Banganga Tank has been present since ancient times, said to be from the time of Rama and is fed by a natural spring despite being a few decametres from the sea shore.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tanks_of_Bombay   (478 words)

  
 Fashion Newsrat: Your Source for Fashion News on Tank   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A temple tank waits for water and a wash Feb 6, 2004 In all, it is a sickening picture of a fetid dumpyard.
Ammonia tank unearthed Feb 4, 2004 19 led Lenawee County sheriff's deputies to the unusual discovery of a 1,000 gallon tank of anhydrous ammonia buried behind a Cadmus Road residence.
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 septic tank system
Septic Tank and Drainfield Operation and Maintenance, from the MSU...
A septic tank system for a house consists of a septic tank and a leaching bed.
Resident Peggy Dey, who uses a septic tank system, said she is undecided on whether sewers would be a benefit to her family.
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 Think tank road   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Once the only source of water supply for the city, the names of these tanks and subsequently the roads, came after the benevolent citizens who funded their construction and maintenance.
Other tanks were the Babula Tank constructed in 1849 near the Grant Medical College and the Mumbadevi tank built by a woman named Putlibai.
The Cowasji Patel (CP) Tank, for instance, faced a severe water shortage in 1846, after which Framji Cowasji sank three wells in its gardens to provide water by means of steam machinery to the tank.
web.mid-day.com /smd/play/2004/december/100163.htm   (418 words)

  
 concrete tank design
Good concrete tank design is not usually achieved by "crunching" the numbers according to a code of practice.
Texas architect converts abandoned concrete water tank into the safe...
The tank was being built for Sanitation District of...
www.concrete.elor.info /concrete-tank-design   (396 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
'''Gowalia Tank Maidan''' is a park in central Bombay where Mahatma Gandhi issued the Quit India movement on 8 August, 1942 decreeing that the United Kingdom British must leave India immediately or else mass agitations would take place.
The call mobilised the citizens to a huge Civil Disobedience movement as the British refused to grant independence till the World War II War was over.
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Gowalia Tank.
www.mauspfeil.net /Gowalia_Tank.html   (134 words)

  
 Aug 9 losing its significance - Sify.com
Her views find concurrence in 32-year-old Tara Desai, a resident of Nana Chowk where the historic Gowalia Tank Maidan later renamed as August Kranti Maidan is situated.
It is only after I came here two years ago, I realised the significance of this ground." The Gowalia Tank Maidan of 1942 is not the same any more and much of the space has been encroached, says M Ajagaonkar, executive secretary of Mani Bhavan.
However, no one could have imagined the change that was to be wrought at the Gowalia tank maidan, thus named because cowherds brought their cattle to the tank for water, 61 years ago.
sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13220816   (1194 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: The girl who hoisted the flag of freedom
As shouts of ''Quit India'' rent the air, a frail young lady rushed forward and hoisted the tricolour at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay.
The die was cast, the turning point of India's struggle had arrived and the country was headed irrevocably on the path to freedom.
The All-India Congress Committee had planned to launch the hoist the tricolour at Gowalia Tank maidan as a sign that the Quit India movement had begun.
www.rediff.com /news/jul/24ratna2.htm   (463 words)

  
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 rediff.com: Quit India Diamond Jubilee Special: Few visitors at August Kranti Maidan know about its history   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This is the response to the location where, just 60 years ago, Mahatma Gandhi first gave the call for the Quit India movement.
Earlier known as Gowalia Tank, it has been rechristened August Kranti Maidan in honour of its historical status.
His friend had referred to it as Gowalia Tank.
specials.rediff.com /news/2002/aug/08spec.htm   (871 words)

  
 A violent chapter in a non-violent movement
The heart-stirring images of disciplined volunteers clad in khadi stoutly courting arrest, of arrogant white sahibs brandishing lathis are the more obvious images of the last campaign of the freedom struggle.
What one tends to forget is that the cry of `Quit India' was muffled by the British authorities only two to three months after the famous meeting at Gowalia Tank Maidan, and that the movement was hardly the example of non-violent satyagraha that our nostalgia might entertain.
The public meeting of the AICC gathered on a balmy Saturday morning on August 8 at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, not far from a canopied statue of the Queen-Empress Victoria.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19970809/22150643.html   (1005 words)

  
 rediff.com: Quit India Diamond Jubilee Special   (Site not responding. Last check: )
had finished college and was working as a chemist at Kemp's Corner [near Gowalia Tank, since renamed August Kranti Maidan, in south Mumbai].
Patriotism was in the air and the Congress for us could do no wrong.
There was a lathi-charge -- I think even tear gas was used -- by the police at Gowalia Tank, where people had again gathered in huge numbers.
www.rediff.com /news/2002/aug/06spec2.htm   (564 words)

  
 Gowalia Tank -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gowalia Tank -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The call mobilised the citizens to a huge Civil Disobedience movement as the British refused to grant independence till the (The waging of armed conflict against an enemy) War was over.
The closest railheads are (Click link for more info and facts about Grant Road) Grant Road and (Click link for more info and facts about Bombay Central) Bombay Central railway stations.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Go/Gowalia_Tank.htm   (70 words)

  
 Mumbai
1885 - Indian National Congress formed at Gowalia tank Maidan.
Tata flew from Karachi to Bombay via Ahmedabad landing on a grass strip at Juhu paving the way for civil aviation in India.
August 8, 1942 - Quit India Movement declaration passed at Gowalia Tank Maidan.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/mumbai   (2342 words)

  
 The Indian Express : Op-Ed   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The subsequent week, the All India Congress Committee was to be held at Gowalia Tank Maidan to adopt the Quit India Resolution.
It was a strange coincidence that this historic resolution was passed at Gowalia Tank Maidan, adjoining the Gokuldas Tejpal hall—where the Indian National Congress was formed in 1885 by A O Hume.
At the 1942 AICC session in Bombay, Gandhiji’s secretary Mahadev Desai was extremely perturbed because Gandhiji had told him, ‘‘This time, if I am arrested, I will immediately start a fast in jail.
www.indianexpress.com /ie20011003/op2.html   (1104 words)

  
 Netguruindia News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
August 10: On the occasion of the 58th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh along with several other citizens paid homage to at the historic Gowalia Tank Maidan on Wednesday.
Deshmukh urged the people to pledge that the sovereignty and integrity of the nation, a legacy handed down by the stalwarts of the freedom movement would be protected at any cost.
Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh (RMMS) took out a silent procession from Mumbai Central railway station to Gowalia Tank to pay tribute to freedom fighters.
www.netguruindia.com /news/Aug00/11/MUM1.html   (199 words)

  
 History of Mumbai - Mumbai on the net
One reform which met with much superstitious opposition, before it was implemented, was the sealing and banning the use of water from open wells and tanks that bred mosquitoes.
The historic session of the All India Congress Committee began on the 7th of August 1942.
Its venue was the Gowalia Tank Maidan, where the congress was born in 1885.
www.mumbainet.com /cityinfo/history.htm   (3092 words)

  
 Nish   (Site not responding. Last check: )
There is a new Chinese cook in town, Peter Leong from Bahrain.
He operates at Nish, a restaurant at Gowalia Tank (72, August Kranti Marg, at the corner where it joins Forjett Street, and you have to reserve a table.
It is not one of those restaurants where you can walk in and walk out.
www.mumbainet.com /eatinout/nish.htm   (858 words)

  
 Eat your heart out   (Site not responding. Last check: )
While Athena was relaunched a month ago to mixed reactions from select invitees, Merlot (the revamped restaurant at Athena) has only just opened to the public.
The other, a Pan-Asian restaurant at Gowalia Tank, is called Mimosa and boasts the best contemporary South East Asian cuisine this side of the Great Wall.
The first thing you notice when you walk into Merlot is the living-room bar and the walk-in wine cellar.
web.mid-day.com /entertainment/news/2003/december/70787.htm   (706 words)

  
 Astounding Aruna Asaf Ali   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Her marriage bought her face to face with the freedom struggle and social service, which she pursued as a part of Gandhi's Satyagraha movement she was sent to prison on charge of sedition.
When the Congress leaders were arrested on the day after this resolution was passed, Aruna presided over the flag-hoisting ceremony at Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay, where the enormous Assembly was tear gassed, lathi-charged and fired upon.
She became a full-time activist in the Quit India movement, eventually going underground to evade arrest.
www.evesindia.com /bold-beauty/skindeep/asaf_ali.html   (738 words)

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