Write a newspaper article of about when India got freedom.
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Explanation:
We’ve gone over it a million times, both the jubilation of Independence and the terror of Partition. Trysts with destinies, one-man boundary commissions and the nighttime trains of death. Reading of a mad man spreadeagled on the boundary of two warring infant nations in which everyone has gone crazy.
So many times, that it’s all a bit of a blur now; jaded even. So let’s reset – and take a look at it through the eyes of the people who lived through it the first time. Here are some newspaper accounts of the final months leading up the August 15, 1947.
Mountbatten Plan for Partition
The final plan for a united India was the Cabinet Mission, announced in the fiery summer of 1946. For six months, the British, the Congress and the Muslim League fought over the plan, sparring over its legal minutiae. By the end, it fell through: the Congress rejected it, unhappy with how little power the Centre had. Famously, Nehru announced that the Congress would enter the Constituent Assembly “completely unfettered by agreements”.
With India hurtling into anarchy, the British Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten resurrected a plan drawn up by Indian civil servant, VP Menon, which proposed a complete partition into two dominions under the British crown. He ran it by Nehru on May 10, who preferred it greatly to the alternative: a transfer of power to the provinces.
It was announced on June 3 and served as the final blueprint for transfer of power.