Question

Which of the following Plan was known as the partition plan?

macaulay plan
atlee announcement
montagu chelmsford reforms
mountbatten plan​

Answer 1

Answer:

Mountbatten plan

Explanation:

Lord Mountbatten, the Viceroy of India in 1947, put forth the partition plan widely known as the Mountbatten Plan. The Plan was accepted by Congress and the Muslim League.

Answer 2

Mountbatten Plan was known as the partition plan. (Option d)

Mountbatten Plan:

• The "Mountbatten Plan," which divided British India between the two new dominions, was implemented. Mountbatten announced it at a press conference on 3 June 1947, along with the date of independence, which was set for 15 August 1947. The following were the primary points of the plan:

• Partition would be voted on by Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims in Punjab and Bengal legislative assemblies. These provinces would be partitioned if a simple majority of either faction desired it.

• Sind and Balochistan provinces were free to choose whatever dominion they wished to be a part of.

Macaulay Plan:

• Thomas Babington Macaulay, a British historian and politician, delivered his 'Minute on Indian Education' on February 2, 1835, in which he attempted to prove the need for Indian 'natives' to get an English education.
• The famous Lord Macaulay's Minute resolved the dispute in favor of Anglicists by directing limited government resources only to the education of Western sciences and literature in English.

Atlee announcement:

• On February 20, 1947, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced the United Kingdom's plan to leave the Indian subcontinent.
• It stated that a timetable of June 30, 1948 had been set for the transfer of power, even if Indian officials had not reached an agreement on the constitution by that date.

• If the constituent assembly was not entirely representative, i.e., if the Muslim majority provinces did not participate, the British would surrender authority to some kind of central administration or, in some areas, to the existing provincial governments.

• With the transfer of power, British powers and obligations toward the princely states would expire, but they would not be transmitted to any successor administration in British India.

Montagu Chelmsford reforms:

• Montagu submitted the historic Montagu Declaration (August Declaration) to the British Parliament on August 20, 1917. This declaration advocated for greater Indian participation in government and the formation of self-governing institutions in India