1. Answer the following
questions2x5
a.What was the main proposal of Wavel Plan?
b. Why did Muslim League reject the Wavel Plan?
c.Who was the first Indian appointed as the Governor General and succeeded whom?
d. Who were the first Governor General of India and Pakistan? e.Who were the members of the Cabinet Mission?When did it arrive in India?
2.
a. Write about the formation of Constituent Assembly (3) b. Write three points about the end of jurisdiction of the British Parliament. c. Write four important points of the Mountbatten plan
Answers
a) On 14 June 1945 Lord Wavell announced a plan for a new Executive Council in which all members except the Viceroy and the Commander in Chief would be Indians. This executive council was to be a temporary measure until a new permanent constitution could be agreed upon and come into force.
b) the Wavell plan was rejected by the Muslim league since it fell short of its demand for pakistan . the Congress also refused to accept it as it did not accept the total independence of India from foreign rule.
c) Warren Hastings
d) Quaid-i-Azam
e) The three men who constituted the mission, Stafford Cripps, Pethick-Lawrence and A.V. Alexander favoured India's unity for strategic reasons. Upon arriving in the subcontinent the mission found both parties, the Indian National Congress and Muslim League, more unwilling than ever to reach a settlement.
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a) The Constitution of India was drafted by the Constituent Assembly, and it was implemented under the Cabinet Mission Plan on 16 May 1946. The members of the Constituent Assembly were elected by the provincial assemblies by a single, transferable-vote system of proportional representation.
b)
c) . partition - india would be divided into two dominion of india and pakistan.
. Bengal and punjab - bengal and punjab would be partitioned , provided that the legislative assemblies of the two province voted in favour of it.
. the princely states - the treaties with the princely states would came to an end. they would be free to enter either dominion or remain independent.
. a boundary commission - the Mountbatten plan provided for the creation of a boundary commission to settle the boundaries of the two dominion in case the the partition was finalised.