How could the Muslim league create the impression that the Congress as basically a Hindu party and did not want to share power with Muslims? What were the demands of the Muslim league that the Congress did not accept?
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The British announced that India would be participating in the world war-II On behalf of the allied powers without any consent of Indian Congress leaders.
The British actively raised doubts about the right of the Congress to represent the people of the country. They followed ‘the Divide and Rule policy’ vigorously. The British supported and encouraged the plans of the Muslim league.
Hindu Mahasabha, RSS gave out the message that India was the land of the Hindus who were in a majority. Congress argued that Hindus and Muslims were not people of two different nations, but part and parcel of one Indian nation.
On 23rd March 1940, the Muslim League moved a resolution demanding a measure of autonomy for the Muslim majority areas of the Subcontinent.
As the Cripps Mission was failed in 1942, Gandhiji decided to take-up another mass movement called “Quit India”.
Subhash Chandra Bose recruited prisoners of war from Japan in his army which he called “Indian National Army (INA)”
Discussions about the transfer of power broke down due to Jinnah’s unrelenting demand that League should have an absolute right to choose all the Muslim members of the executive council.
In March 1946, the British Cabinet sent a three member mission to Delhi to examine the League’s demand. Muslim League called for “Direct Action” for winning its Pakistan demand.
In February, 1947 Wavell was replaced as viceroy by Lord Mountbatten. He announced that British India would be freed but also divided. On 15th August 1947 India got independence.
All states except Kashmir, Hyderabad and Junagadh had agreed to sign the Instrument of Accession with India by 1947.
Key words:
Dominion status: It means an autonomous polities that were nominally under the British sovereignty. Constituting the British Empire and British Commonwealth, beginning in the later of the 19th century.
Divide and Rule: The policy maintaining control over colonies or sub-ordinates by encouraging dissent between them, thereby preventing them from uniting in opposition the British followed the “Divide and Rule” policy in India.
Separate Electorate: The type of election in which minorities, scheduled castes, backward castes and women select their own representatives separately. This means election for specific groups of the population. These are called Separate Electorates.