the story of the integration of the indian states

Congress accepts the partition of IndiaĪccepted by the Congress, League, and the Sikh leaders on 2 June and announced the next day, this became the basis of the India Independence Act which was ratified by the British Parliament and Crown on 18 July and implemented on 15 August. The plan was quickly abandoned though, however a few provisions of it like the transfer of power to the two central governments, India and Pakistan, on the basis of grant of Dominion status, along the princely states rendered independent by the lapse of paramountcy, which would then have the choice to either join India, Pakistan or remain separate was taken up instead. Īfter a rapid series of 133 interviews with political leaders between 24 March and 6 May, Mountbatten decided that the Cabinet Mission framework had become untenable and formulated an alternative with the appropriate code name Plan Balkan. The idea of partition with freedom came to be widely accepted even before Mountbattens arrival.

Mountbatten proved more decisive and quick than previous viceroys like Wavell, as he had been informally given much greater powers to decide things on the spot by the British government than his predecessors. Lord Louis Mountbatten replaced Lord Wavell as the last Viceroy and Governor General of India. The Indian Independence Act, 1947īritish Prime Minister Clement Atlees famous speech in the House of Commons on 20th February 1947, fixed June 1948 as a deadline for the transfer of power. But, Junagadh was an important state, with a population of 700,000, 80% of them Hindus and, predictably, ruled by a Muslim prince. It itself contained dozens of petty estates and sheikhdoms within it. Junagadh was a state on the southern-tip of Gujarat within a region called Kathiawar.

The story of the integration of the indian states