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The Independence Settlement
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The Independence Settlement
The Partition Plan
- after WWII Britain was in great debt so couldn't keep control in India
- 1947, British withdrawal by August 1947
- 1945, Labor Government elected
- Prime Minister Clement Attlee sought to separate India and Britain
- negotiations started at Simla Conferece, June 1945
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Congress Representative
- more open to modernist, socialist building and social engineering projects than Gandhi
- 1946 Cabinet Mission developed compromise
- divided provinces into 3 groups
- Group A,B,C
- Goup A= Hindu majority states
- Group B = northwestern Muslim majority
- group C = eastern state of Bengal
- Group A,B,C
- divided provinces into 3 groups
- Jinnah tried to show power of Muslim League through Direct Acton Day in November 1946 = turned to violence against Hindus in bengal
- Hindu right demanded Partition, seeking Hindu nation as counterweight against Muslim Pakistan
- after WWII Britain was in great debt so couldn't keep control in India
Trauma of Partition, 1947-55
- When partition was announced in Feb, 1947, there was no simple way to determine borders
- In Punjab area many violent episodes, Punjab = militarized because most soldiers were from there
- August 15, 1947
- Nehru's tryst with With Destiny speech = panted an optimistic vision of Indians committed to their own government