QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU AND THE ALLIED POWERS OF GREAT BRITAIN

The article is devoted to one of the little-studied aspects of Indian history - the anti-British "Leave India" movement of 1942 and the reaction of allied countries in the Anti-Hitler and Anti-Japanese coalitions. The authors use the materials of the Ministry of External Affairs of the National Archives of India, published volumes of British government documents, memoirs, and the press of those years. Based on a critical analysis of the sources, it is concluded that the Allies' position on the "Leave India" movement was similar - none of the countries supported it. The growth of a national movement in India against British rule in 1942 was a less pressing issue for the Allies than waging a world war against the aggressors. Internationalism discretely took precedence over anti-colonial nationalism.