Timeline
24 March 1946
Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty; it arrived in New Delhi on .
15 March 1946
Its mandate flowed from Attlee's declaration of in the House of Commons, which accepted India's right to full self-government and even, by implication, the…
16 May 1946
The plan was published on .
6 June 1946
The Muslim League, meeting at its council on , accepted the plan because the compulsory grouping of Sections B and C effectively delivered a Pakistan-in-embryo.
10 July 1946
On , Jawaharlal Nehru, newly elected Congress president, declared at a Bombay press conference that the Assembly would be sovereign and free to alter the gro…
29 July 1946
Muhammad Ali Jinnah treated this as a breach of the compact; on the League withdrew its acceptance and called Direct Action Day for 16 August 1946, which pr…
16 August 1946
Muhammad Ali Jinnah treated this as a breach of the compact; on 29 July 1946 the League withdrew its acceptance and called Direct Action Day for , which prec…
3 June 1947
Unlike the Mountbatten Plan of , which accepted partition and the creation of two dominions, the Cabinet Mission explicitly aimed to preserve a united India…
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Indian National Congress
The Cabinet Mission Plan 1946 was the constitutional scheme advanced by a three-member British delegation dispatched by Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labour government to negotiate the transfer of power in India. The mission comprised Lord Pethick-Lawrence, the Secretary of State for India, Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, and A. V. Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty; it arrived in New Delhi on 24 March 1946. Its mandate flowed from Attlee's declaration of 15 March 1946 in the House of Commons, which accepted India's right to full self-government and even, by implication, the possibility of partition. The mission's authority rested not on statute but on executive negotiation with the Indian National Congress and the All-India Muslim League, against the backdrop of the failed Cripps Mission of 1942, the Quit India movement, the 1945 Simla Conference deadlock, and the post-war exhaustion of British power. The plan was published on 16 May 1946.
All-India Muslim League
The Cabinet Mission Plan 1946 was the constitutional scheme advanced by a three-member British delegation dispatched by Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labour government to negotiate the transfer of power in India. The mission comprised Lord Pethick-Lawrence, the Secretary of State for India, Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, and A. V. Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty; it arrived in New Delhi on 24 March 1946. Its mandate flowed from Attlee's declaration of 15 March 1946 in the House of Commons, which accepted India's right to full self-government and even, by implication, the possibility of partition. The mission's authority rested not on statute but on executive negotiation with the Indian National Congress and the All-India Muslim League, against the backdrop of the failed Cripps Mission of 1942, the Quit India movement, the 1945 Simla Conference deadlock, and the post-war exhaustion of British power. The plan was published on 16 May 1946.
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In July 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru told a Bombay press conference that the Constituent Assembly would be sovereign to change the Cabinet Mission's grouping scheme, prompting the Muslim League to withdraw its acceptance and call Direct Action Day.
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