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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
- 1947, British withdrawal by August 1947
- 1945, Labor Government elected
- Prime Minister Clement Attlee
sought to separate India and
Britain
- 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
- 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
- Goup A= Hindu majority states
- 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
- Nehru's tryst with With Destiny speech =
panted an optimistic vision of Indians
committed to their own government
- When partition was announced in Feb,
1947, there was no simple way to
determine borders
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