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What were the recommendations of the Cabinet Mission? How did the political parties receive them?

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These were the recommendations:

  • Formation of an Indian Union including the British Provinces and the native states. India should remain one.
  • Defence, Foreign Affairs and Communication should be handled by the Centre. Other matters may be administered by the Province and native states.
  • The existing Provinces would be grouped into A, B, and C. In A group there will be Provinces with Hindu majority.
  • In the B group, there will be Provinces of Muslim majority from the North West region. In Group C, Muslim Majority Provinces of the North East, including Assam, will be included.
  • A Constitution-making Committee will be made. This Committee will be elected by the Provincial Assemblies.
  • Until the Constitution is prepared, an Ad-hoc government will be formed in the Centre. It will consist of leaders of different political parties. 
  • Partition soon became inevitable. Most Congress leaders were against it. But they.had to finally agree to it They knew that although it was undesirable it was inevitable.
  • There were only two people who vehemently opposed partition – Gandhi and Frontier Gandhi (Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan).


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