Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Interim Govt
- London Talks
- Constituent Assembly
- Convened in December 1946
- Would never complete its task
- No Muslim reps- Muslim calls for
Pakistan were growing stronger
- Attlee was privately determined to force this through by replacing Wavell
with a new viceroy who was much more eager to hand over power
- Feb 1947, Wavell sacked, offered Earldom,
sacked without dignity, everyone knew it
- Group of people trying to set up constitution
- Attlee summoned Nehru, Jinnah and Balder
Singh to London for talks with him and Wavell
- Wavell wanted basic interpretation of May statement
where states could secede to be chosen
- Attlee sided with Nehru and pressed on with
Constituent Assembly for India
- Jinnah remained in London, 79 seats for Muslims
on constiuent assembly would be boycotted
- In no Rush to return
- Temporary govt took power in Sept 1946
- Nehru
- In charge of Foreign Affairs
- As governor general of Council, now obliged
to carry out decisions of Indian members
- Wavell
- Still technically man in charge
- Still responsible for effective
govt of British India
- However now has to take orders from Interim govt
- Patel
- Home affairs - law order and justice - also in
charge ofsecret police and security
- Immediately diverted flow of intelligence to
Congress - cuts out Viceroy
- Jinnah
- Agreed to becoming finance minister after Wavell
pushed for ML involvement in interim govt
- Ali Khan
- Only muslim rep on exec council as Jinnah
declined to join due to Nehru's dominance
- Becomes first leader of independent pakistan