Mountbattenplan

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The Mountbatten Plan is the British Government's action plan named after the British Governor General and Viceroy of India , Lord Mountbatten , to give British India independence . It included the division of British India into two successor states, the Indian Union and Pakistan . It became the basis of the "Indian Independence Act" passed by the British Parliament in 1947 (10 and 11 Geo VI, c. 30).

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The published Mountbatten on June 3, 1947 Mountbattenplan put the administrative steps and timing for the division of British India, the establishment of two independent Dominions firm and the transfer of state power on 15 August 1947th In accordance with the two-nation theory , the previous colony should be divided into two independent successor states according to religious majorities, Muslims or Hindus ; border commissions were to be set up for the Punjab and Bengal , but the princely states should be given the choice of which state to join.

Both the Muslim League led by Ali Jinnah and the Congress Party accepted the plan. The British Parliament subsequently passed the Indian Independence Act and the two states became independent in August. Mountbatten did not announce the exact demarcation until August 16, already in his new capacity as Governor General. The First Indo-Pakistani War broke out in October over the question of membership of Kashmir , one of the princely states .

The Mountbatten plan was considered to be inevitable according to its content, but the short schedule was e.g. T. heavily criticized.

See also

literature

  • Andrew Roberts: Churchill and his time (original title: Eminent Churchillians , London, 1994, translated by Friedrich Griese), dtv, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-24132-2 .

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  1. ↑ cf. Roberts 1999: 111ff.