Timeline
24 March 1946
Alexander—who arrived in New Delhi on .
16 May 1946
After the failure of the tripartite Simla Conference in May 1946, the Mission issued its own statement of , which constitutes the Plan proper.
2 September 1946
After protracted negotiation, an interim government headed by Jawaharlal Nehru was sworn in on ; the Muslim League, having initially accepted the Plan on 6 J…
6 June 1946
After protracted negotiation, an interim government headed by Jawaharlal Nehru was sworn in on 2 September 1946; the Muslim League, having initially accepted…
29 July 1946
After protracted negotiation, an interim government headed by Jawaharlal Nehru was sworn in on 2 September 1946; the Muslim League, having initially accepted…
10 July 1946
The Congress, in a resolution and in Nehru's celebrated Bombay press conference of , held that grouping was optional and that a province could decline to ent…
16 August 1946
Jinnah, treating the Congress stance as repudiation, withdrew acceptance and on called Direct Action Day, which precipitated the Great Calcutta Killings.
3 June 1947
It differed fundamentally from the Mountbatten Plan (the Plan) and the resulting Indian Independence Act 1947, which abandoned the single-union framework en…
Positions at a glance
Indian National Congress
The Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946 originated in a deliberate British decision, announced by Prime Minister Clement Attlee in February 1946, to transfer power to Indian hands and resolve the constitutional deadlock between the Indian National Congress and the All-India Muslim League. Attlee dispatched a three-member mission of senior cabinet ministers—Secretary of State for India Lord Pethick-Lawrence, President of the Board of Trade Sir Stafford Cripps, and First Lord of the Admiralty A.V. Alexander—who arrived in New Delhi on 24 March 1946. Their mandate, working alongside Viceroy Lord Wavell, was to devise machinery for framing an Indian constitution and to form an interim government, all without conceding the Muslim League's demand for a sovereign Pakistan. After the failure of the tripartite Simla Conference in May 1946, the Mission issued its own statement of 16 May 1946, which constitutes the Plan proper.
All-India Muslim League
The Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946 originated in a deliberate British decision, announced by Prime Minister Clement Attlee in February 1946, to transfer power to Indian hands and resolve the constitutional deadlock between the Indian National Congress and the All-India Muslim League. Attlee dispatched a three-member mission of senior cabinet ministers—Secretary of State for India Lord Pethick-Lawrence, President of the Board of Trade Sir Stafford Cripps, and First Lord of the Admiralty A.V. Alexander—who arrived in New Delhi on 24 March 1946. Their mandate, working alongside Viceroy Lord Wavell, was to devise machinery for framing an Indian constitution and to form an interim government, all without conceding the Muslim League's demand for a sovereign Pakistan. After the failure of the tripartite Simla Conference in May 1946, the Mission issued its own statement of 16 May 1946, which constitutes the Plan proper.
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In his Bombay press conference of 10 July 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru declared that the Congress had agreed only to enter the Constituent Assembly and was unbound by the Cabinet Mission Plan's grouping scheme, prompting Jinnah to withdraw the League's acceptance.
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