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 TOPICS
1. INTERIM GOVERNMENT (1946)
2. 3RD JUNE PLAN (1947)
2. BOUNDARY COMMISSION (1947)
The INTERIM GOVERNMENT
 The INTERIM GOVERNMENT
 Viceroy Lord Wavell organized an INTERIM GOVERNMENT.
 Muslim League joined: 26th October, 1946.
 AIML was given FIVE (5) Portfolios

AIML’s PORTFOLIOS

Commerce Railways & Law Finance Health

Communications

Ismail Ibrahim Sardar Abdur Rab Jogindarnath Liaquat Ali Raja

Chundigarh Nishtar Mandal Khan Ghazanfar Ali
Khan
 The INTERIM GOVERNMENT
AIML’s PORTFOLIOS
• Viceroy and Commander in • Vice President Defence • Home Affairs
Governor- Chief of the Executive
General of Council • Information and
India Broadcasting
• External
• President of the Affairs and
Executive Commonwealth
Council Relations

Sir Claude
Lord Wavell Auchinleck Jawaharlal Nehru Baldev Sardar Vallahbhai Patel
Singh (Iron-man of Congress)

The Constituent Assembly completed drafting the Constitution of India on 26th November 1949 and
India was declared a Republic on 26th January 1950.
 The LAST BUDGET of UNITED INDIA First
 The last budget of undivided India was given by: Liaquat Ali Khan (Minister of National
Finance) Budget

 AIMS & OBJECTIVES:

 To reduce the disparity between wealthy classes & poverty stricken masses
Poor Man’s Budget
 “wealth should not be circulated among the wealthy- Liaquat quoted from
al-Quran”

MAIN FEATURES OF BUDGET

Salt Tax Minimum Exemption Graduated Tax on Special Income Tax of

was Limit from Income Tax: Capital Gains: 25% on business
abolished Raised from Rs. 2,000 to Exceeding Rs. 5,000 profits: Exceeding Rs.
Rs.2,500 100,000

investigate the accumulation of Wealth

A Commission was to set up to
during the war and to give Taxation Proposals
3rd JUNE PLANE
 3rd JUNE PLANE
 Prime Minister of England in 1947 (at the time of Partition): Clement
Attlee
 Last Secretary of State for India: William Listowel
 Last Viceroy of India: Lord Mountbatten
 Mountbatten arrived in India on: 22nd March, 1947
 Two days later, in an oath taking Ceremony, Mountbatten Repeated the words
of British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee:
 On 20th Feb, 1947, PM Clement Attlee declared in the House of
Commons, “Process of Transfer of Power to India be completed by June,
1948”
 Mountbatten’s Mission:
 Transfer of Power to UNITED INDIA
 Implementation of CABINET MISSION PLAN: best solution to all
Constitutional Problems faced by India.
 MOUNTBATTEN’S PARTITION PLAN
 Mountbatten was forced to divide India by the then prevailing tense
conditions, hence he prepared the PLAN OF PARTITION

SALIENT FEATURES
Responsibility Provinces Punjab & In case of NWFP:
of Partition right to Bengal: Partition of General
is upon Indian determine their to be partitioned for Elections to be
own future Bengal: held
Themselves voting purpose Sylhet was to give the
option

Mountbatten decided to sent the draft plan of partition to England with George
Abell and Ismay Lord Ismay later served
as the First Secretary
General of NATO
 CONGRESS’ INTRIGUES
 15th -16th April, 1947:
 Mountbatten presented his draft before the Governors, and also informed them about the views of Congress
Leaders (Nehru, Patel and Menon)

Governor of Punjab Governor of Bengal

Evan Jenkins Frederick Bourne
Both the Governors opposed the idea of Partition and called its devastated to their respective provinces

 10th May, 1947

 George Abell & Lord Ismay returned to India with important alterations in the Plan
 Power was to be transferred to the Provinces instead of the TWO STATES.

 Nehru and other Congress leaders rejected on the plea that it

would lead to the creation
of several Pakistan. Would lead to Balkanization of India
 Mountbatten presented his draft before the Governors, and also informed them about the views of Congress
Leaders (Nehru, Patel and Menon)
 MENON-MOUNTBATTEN DUO
18th May, 1947
 Menon accompanied Mountbatten during his stay at Shimla.
 Menon prepared the ALTERNATIVE PLAN in four hours during his
Stay
 Viceroy took this “Alternative Plan” with him to London. He also took
Menon with him as well.
 British government approved the plan immediately
 Mountbatten returned to India and convened a Meeting of the Leaders of
Congress, Muslim League and Sikhs on 2nd June, 1947
Participants of 2nd June, Meeting:
 Mountbatten, Quaid e Azam, Liaquat Ali Khan, Abdur
Rahman Nishtr,
 Sardar Vallahbahi Patel, Pandit Nehru, Acharia Kirpalani,
Sardar Baldev Singh.
 3rd JUNE PLAN
SIGNIFICANT POINTS OF 3rd JUNE PLAN
1. PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLIES of PUNJAB & BENGAL

To sit in TWO Separate Sittings. Representing the Muslim and Non-Muslim majority
districts and decide about Partition of their Respective Provinces.

In case of Partition
A BOUNDARY COMMISSION would be set up
2. A Special Meeting of SINDH Assembly
would decide whether to remain part of the Present Constituent Assembly
Or
Join the NEW ASSEMBLY of PAKISTAN
3. NWFP
Referendum
In case of Partition of Bengal:
SYLHET was to give the option

▪ ASSAM: It is a non-Muslim majority Province, but the district

of SYLHET (district of Assam) is a Muslim Majority

SYLHET: Referendum. Whether to remain with Assam or join

Eastern Bengal.
 The RADIO ADRESS of the Indian Leaders
 2nd June Meeting, Mountbatten told the participants that he would
In the
announce the plan on All-India Radio in the Evening of
3rd June, 1947.
 INVITATION: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Jawaharlal Nehru,
Baldev Singh
 PURPOSE: The Leaders were to address their Supporters about the 3rd June, 1947
Plan.
 Minister of Information and Broadcasting:
 Sardar Vallahbhai Patel.

 Jinnah, besdies informing Muslims about the 3rd June Plan, also appealed to the
people of NWFP to vote in favor of Pakistan (violating the decorum)
 AIML approved the 3rd June Plan in its meeting held on 9th August, 1947
 Venue: Imperial Hotel, Delhi
 Meeting began with Recitation of: Maulana Abdul Hamid Badauni
BOUNDARY COMMISSION
 BOUNDARY COMMISSION
JOINT CHAIRMAN OF PUNJAB & BENGAL
COMMISSION

PUNJAB COMMISSION

1. Justice Din Muhammad 1. Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan

(President) 2. Justice Teja Singh
2. Justice Muhammad Munir
Sessions: 21st to 31st July, 1947 Venue: Lahore High Court Building

BENGAL COMMISSION

1. Justice S.A. Rehman 1. Justice C.C. Biswas

2. Justice Abu Saleh Muhammad 2. Justice Bijan Kumar Mukherjee
Akram
 RADCLIFFE AWARD
 Most parts of the district NADIA and its Adjoining District of Murshidabad (with
Muslim Majority) were given to India
 Calcutta was given to India
 INJUSTICE WITH PUNJAB

INJUSTICE WITH PUNJAB

Muslim Majority Areas that were given to India

AMBALA FEROZPUR GURDASPUR JULLUNDHUR
59.4% 55.2% 52.1% 51.1%
(Muslim Pop)

GURDASPUR
GURDASPUR SHAKARGARH BATALA PATHANKOT
ONLY non-Muslim
Tehsil
 ANNOUNCEMENT OF RADCLIFFE AWARD

 Radcliffe Award was announced on 17th August, 1947.

 “We have been squeezed in as much as it was possible, and the latest blow we
have received was the award. It is Unjust, Incomprehensible and
even Perverse Award” Jinnah

 “Radcliffe Award is a Territorial Murder” Altaf Hussain