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15 August 1947
The June 3 Plan of 1947 was the British scheme, announced by Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, that fixed the partition of India and the transfer of power by .
3 June 1947
The June 3 Plan of 1947, also called the Mountbatten Plan or the Plan Partition, was the formal British proposal announced simultaneously in London and New D…
20 February 1947
Its legal authority derived from the British Government's policy statement of , in which Prime Minister Clement Attlee declared that the British would quit I…
18 July 1947
The plan's provisions were translated into statute as the Indian Independence Act, 1947, which received royal assent on , creating the Dominions of India and…
9 June 1947
The Muslim League Council accepted the plan on and the Congress Working Committee on 14–15 June 1947, with Mahatma Gandhi reluctantly acquiescing.
15 June 1947
The Muslim League Council accepted the plan on 9 June 1947 and the Congress Working Committee on 14–, with Mahatma Gandhi reluctantly acquiescing.
17 August 1947
Sir Cyril Radcliffe chaired the two Boundary Commissions; the Radcliffe Award was finalised on 12 August but withheld until 16–, after Independence.
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Indian National Congress
The June 3 Plan of 1947, also called the Mountbatten Plan or the Plan Partition, was the formal British proposal announced simultaneously in London and New Delhi on 3 June 1947 that settled the method by which power would be transferred from the British Crown to successor governments in the Indian subcontinent. Its legal authority derived from the British Government's policy statement of 20 February 1947, in which Prime Minister Clement Attlee declared that the British would quit India by June 1948 and announced Lord Louis Mountbatten's appointment as the last Viceroy. The June 3 Plan superseded the Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946, which had envisaged a loose three-tier Indian Union with grouped provinces and had collapsed amid irreconcilable interpretations by the Indian National Congress and the All-India Muslim League. The June 3 Plan accepted, for the first time in an official British proposal, the principle that India might be partitioned into two sovereign dominions.
All-India Muslim League
The June 3 Plan of 1947, also called the Mountbatten Plan or the Plan Partition, was the formal British proposal announced simultaneously in London and New Delhi on 3 June 1947 that settled the method by which power would be transferred from the British Crown to successor governments in the Indian subcontinent. Its legal authority derived from the British Government's policy statement of 20 February 1947, in which Prime Minister Clement Attlee declared that the British would quit India by June 1948 and announced Lord Louis Mountbatten's appointment as the last Viceroy. The June 3 Plan superseded the Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946, which had envisaged a loose three-tier Indian Union with grouped provinces and had collapsed amid irreconcilable interpretations by the Indian National Congress and the All-India Muslim League. The June 3 Plan accepted, for the first time in an official British proposal, the principle that India might be partitioned into two sovereign dominions.
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On 3 June 1947, Viceroy Lord Mountbatten announced the plan over All India Radio, followed by statements from Jawaharlal Nehru, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Baldev Singh accepting the partition framework.
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