With reference to the transfer of power to India, answer the following :
Why did the Congress accept the Mountbatten Plan ?
1. The whole country was engulfed with large-scale communal riots over the partition of India. The Congress was convinced that the only solution to the communal problem lay in the partition of India into India and Pakistan.
2. The experience of working with the Muslim league had convinced the Congress that the League had joined the Interim Government to obstruct and not to cooperate and that having a joint administration with the League was not feasible.
3. The Congress also understood that the only alternative to partition was a Federation with a weak centre. A smaller India with a strong central authority was better than a bigger State with a weak Centre.
4. The Congress got ready for partition as it would lead to immediate independence from the British because any further continuation of British rule would mean a greater calamity for India as the British were instigating the rulers of the Indian States to remain independent.
Name the three members of the Cabinet Mission.
What were the two proposals related to the Princely States in the Mountbatten Plan?
With reference to the transfer of power to India, answer the following :
Explain the cabinet Mission's proposal regarding the setting up of a Constitution making body.
With reference to the transfer of power to India, answer the following :
Mention any two clauses of the Indian Independence Act 1947.
