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Mind Map by Jake Davey, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jake Davey
almost 11 years ago
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1947 Independance Act
- Key Individuals
- Lord Mountbatten (Viceroy)
- Viceroy of India 1947, Became Governor-General of India 1947-48
- Viceroy of India 1947, Became Governor-General of India 1947-48
- Muhammad Jinnah
- Became Governor-General of Pakistan
- Became Governor-General of Pakistan
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- First Prime Minister of new independant India 1947-64
- First Prime Minister of new independant India 1947-64
- Sardar Patel
- Represented congress in interim goverment
- Represented congress in interim goverment
- Liaquat Ali Khan
- Became First Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Became First Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Lord Mountbatten (Viceroy)
- Key Events
- Plan Balkan
- 3rd May- proposed that
provinces could decide whether
or not to become autonomous or
join larger group
- Nehru rejected- fear that India would become Ulstered
- 3rd May- proposed that
provinces could decide whether
or not to become autonomous or
join larger group
- Menon Plan
- 3rd June- V.P. Menon asked
by Mountbatten to turn 2nd
cabinet mission into credible
document
- Massively rushed- completed in a matter of hours
- Stated that there would be 2
new dominion states within
the commonwealth
- Bengal and Punjab would be able to vote
to decide whether to remain with India or
join Pakistan
- Based on 1935 Goverment of India act
- 3rd June- V.P. Menon asked
by Mountbatten to turn 2nd
cabinet mission into credible
document
- Plan Balkan
- Groups affected
- Hindu's
- India would remain hindu state- famous leaders such as Gandhi
wanted a united India but in the end happy to comprimise to
avoid civil war
- India would remain hindu state- famous leaders such as Gandhi
wanted a united India but in the end happy to comprimise to
avoid civil war
- Muslims
- Happy that they now have new muslim state-
unhappy though that they don't get the whole of
Punjab as previously promised by Jinnah
- Happy that they now have new muslim state-
unhappy though that they don't get the whole of
Punjab as previously promised by Jinnah
- Sikhs
- Sikh political leader Tara Singh claimed right to
autonomous sikh state- Jinnah offered him auntonomy of
holy Amritsar within Pakistan- rejected
- Sikh political leader Tara Singh claimed right to
autonomous sikh state- Jinnah offered him auntonomy of
holy Amritsar within Pakistan- rejected
- Princely states
- Bullied into joining new states
- Bullied into joining new states
- Hindu's
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