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Hello and thanks for downloading Witness history from the BBC World Service with me Claire Bowes.

In August 1942 India was in turmoil over British colonial rule.

Britain needed its Indian troops to fight in World War II,

but at home Indians wanted their independence.

When the main independence leader, Gandhi, their independence

leader Gandhi was arrested a group of young activists took to the airwaves to keep his

quit India movement alive.

This is the Congress radio calling on 42.34 meters from somewhere in India.

This is Usha Meta,

remembering how as a 22-year-old student from Gujarat

she would begin each radio broadcast.

Barely days after Gandhi's arrest, she and others began broadcasting illegally,

with one message, rebellion against Britain's ongoing rule in India.

India has no enmity for the British or any other people.

Our fight is against a system that denies the right of existence of two-thirds of the human

race. Our hatred is for an administration which seeks to perpetuate human injustice.

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