The League had accepted the Plan because it felt that grouping of Muslim - majority provinces in a way meant the formation of Pakistan.
i. Elections to the Constituent Assembly were held in July 1946. The League could win only 73 seats. It feared that it would be over dominated by the Congress.
ii. It also feared that the British withdrawal from India would mean transfer of power to Hindus.
State two reasons given by the Cabinet Mission for rejecting the demand for a separate State of Pakistan.
i. The Establishment of Pakistan was not going to solve the problems of communal minorities.
ii. Partition would make the problem of the Princely states more complex.
The Proposal of Cabinet Mission were accepted by the Congress with some reservations. It suggested that grouping of province should be optional but not compulsory. The Congress rejected the scheme of Interim powers of status. It also had objection of parity with the Muslim League.
Mention any two provisions of the Indian Independence Act, 1947.
The Act's most important provisions were:
i. Division of British India into the two new and fully sovereign dominions of India and Pakistan, with effect from 15 August 1947.
ii. partition of the provinces of Bengal and Punjab between the two new countries.
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