Revision Pack: The Road to Independence
Unit 2F.1India, the Road to Independence
Student book: Edexcel AS/A Level History, Paper 1&2: Searching for rights and freedoms in the 20th century Student Book
The Road to Independence, 1942 - 1948
Timeline
1942 March Cripps Mission arrives in India.
April Congress and Muslim League reject Cripps proposals, Cripps leaves India.
AugustCongress endorses Gandhi's 'Quit India' campaign, Gandhi, Nehru and Congress
leaders arrested.
1943 June Field Marshall Wavell becomes viceroy of India.
1945 May VE day marks the end of war in Europe
June/July Simla Conference considers Wavell's proposals for Indian self government but
fails to reach agreement.
July Labour government elected in Britain.
1945 August Japan surrenders.
1946 Winter Indian general election
March Cabinet Mission arrives in India.
May Second Simla Conference results in constitutional agreement between Congress,
Muslim League and the British government.
1946 July Muslim League denounces Congress and declares Direct Action Day.
August Deaths in Calcutta as a result of Direct Action Day.
1946 September Congress forms interim government with Nehru as prime minister, Muslim
joins interim government.
1947 January Viceroy Wavell removed, replaced by Admiral Viscount Lord Louis Mountbatten.
February British Prime Minister Attlee sets time frame for Indian independence - no later
than June 1948.
March Mountbatten arrives in Delhi.
June Final plan for Partition of India accepted by Congress, Muslim League and Sikhs;
Boundary Commission arrives in Delhi.
July Indian Independence Act creating separate states of India and Pakistan teciebes royal
assent, mass carnage begins.
August Jinnah sworn in as governor-general of Pakistan, Lord Louis Mountbatten sworn in
as governor-general of India, Liaquat Ali Khan becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan, Jawaharlal
Nehru becomes Prime Minister of India.
Impact of the Second World War on Indian politics: threat of invasion
February 1942 Singapore surrendered to Japanese after a week of fighting soon followed by fall of
Malaya and Burma; monumental blow to Britain's prestige in Asia --> popular feeling in India that
British rulers were no longer invincible; British had been suppressing information --> leaked -->
considerable public unrest
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